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Notes on the Cult of Hercules Victor in Tibur and its Neighbourhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

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I cannot send these notes to be printed without a few words in affectionate remembrance of Dr. Thomas Ashby, ὁ τριπόθατος without whose help and guidance they could never have been written. His premature death makes a void, of which others will speak, in the ranks of archaeologists, not in Rome and England only, and of the many friends by whom his memory will be cherished. Our deepest sympathy goes to Mrs. Ashby.

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Copyright ©G. H. Hallam 1931. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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page 276 note 1 Heracles: transplanted to Latian soil by the Greek founders, Catillus and Tiburtus, and identified with the indigenous Hercules.

page 276 note 2 See Bradshaw's, Praeneste: a study for its reconstruction’ in P.B.S.R., ix, 233Google Scholar (quoted by Ashby, , The Roman Campagna in Classical Times, p. 141Google Scholar). Ashby used to say, “what has been done for Praeneste should be done for Tibur.”

page 276 note 3 Sat. iii, 190–93; xiv, 87 f.

page 276 note 4 Carm. iii, 4, 23.

page 277 note 1 See Pacifici. J.R.S., x, 94 ff., and Ashby, The Roman Campagna in Classical Times, p. III ff.

page 277 note 2 Hallam, G. H., Horace at Tibur (2nd ed., 1927), p. 32Google Scholar; Blake, M. in Memoirs of the Amer. Acad. in Rome, viii (1930), 57, 63 ff.Google Scholar See below, p. 281, fig. 30, and p. 295.

page 277 note 3 In its great quadrangle are many pedestals, with inscriptions, giving names of Herculei Augustales. See C.I.L., xiv, 4258 and 4244 to a Mummius CUR(ator) FANT H(erculis) V(ictoris); ib. 4254 Herculano Augustali; and ib. 4242 to Manlius Vopiscus CURAT. FANI HERC. VICT. For further details see Tibur Superbum by F. A. Searle. See also J.R.S. x, 92, and Borsari, and Gatti, in N.d.S., 1887, 25, 150 ff.Google Scholar

page 277 note 4 P.B.S.R., iii, 150. The road from Rome to Tibur and on to Carseoli, the Fucine Lake, etc., is the Via Valeria; but the stretch of it from Rome to Tibur was, and is, called Via Tiburtina. The name survives in a bit of ancient paved road, Via San Valerio, leading up from the Ponte Acquoria to the Porta Scura. In the town and beyond it the road is always ‘Via Valeria.’

page 279 note 1 Roman Campagna in Classical Times, p. 97, and P.B.S.R., iii, 104.

page 279 note 2 The tesserae measure I in. (or less) by ⅓ in. For the use of white mosaic, see below, p. 281.

page 280 note 1 Frazer, , Publii Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Libri VI, iv, 118Google Scholar (on Fasti v, 697).

page 280 note 2 ibid., iv, 320 (on Fasti vi, 735).

page 280 note 3 Described in the Times of February 3rd, 1931, and (with an illustration) in the Illustrated London News of February 14th, 1931.

page 281 note 1 In his later years when Maecenas could not sleep Antonius Musa advised him to go and stay within the sound of running water. See G. H. Hallam, Horace at Tibur, pp. 28 and 32.

page 281 note 2 See above, p. 277 and JRS iv, 134.

page 282 note 1 No mention is made of such wall decoration by MissBlake, Marion on ‘Mosaic Pavements of the Republic and Early Empire,’ Memoirs, American Acad. Rom., Vol. 8, 1930Google Scholar; see especially pp. 57, 9c.