CLAS 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Porta Capena, Flamen Dialis, Appian Way
1 Oct 2016
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Temples to some gods were inside; others outside. Paved in 312 bce by appius claudius caecus the blind . 18 places for sarcophagi room for maybe twice that many at intersection of crossroads joining via appia & via latina. Main fa ade faced crossroad famous in antiquity. Scipios were unusual for their time in that they buried dead instead of cremation. Cornelius lucius scipio barbatus gnaiovod patre i prognatus, fortis vir sapiensque, quoius farma virtutei parisuma i tuit; consol censor aedilis quei fuit apud vos. Taurasiam cisauna i samnio cepit, subigit omne loucanam opsideesque abdoucit. Lucius cornelius scipio, son of lucius, aedile, consul, censor. This man, lucius scipio, as most agree, was the best of all good men at rome. Son of long-beard, he was consul, censor, aedile among you; he captured. Corsica, aleria too, a city to the weather goddesses he gave, deservedly, a temple.
