160 pliny's itatueal histoet. [Book XXXIV. 



CHAP. 13. THE FIKST EQTIESTRIAIS^ STATUES PUBLICLY ERECTED 



AT EOIIE, AXD IN HOXOUR OF WHAT FEMALES STATUES WERE 

 PUBLICLY ERECTED THERE. 



Pedestrian statues have been, undoubtedly, for a long time 

 in estimation at Eome : equestrian statues are, however, of 

 considerable antiquity, and females even have participated in 

 this honour; for the statue of Clselia is equestrian,^^ as if it 

 had not been thought sufficient to have her clad in the toga ; 

 and this, although statues were not decreed to Lucretia, or to 

 Erutus, who had expelled the kings, and througli both of whom 

 Clgelia had been given as a hostage.^- I should have thought 

 that this statue, and that of Codes, were the first that were 

 erected at the public expense — for it is most likely that the 

 statues of Attus and the Sibyl were erected by Tarquinius, 

 and those of each of the other kings by themselves respectively 

 — had not Piso stated that the statue of Claelia was erected by 

 those who had been hostages with her, when they were given 

 up by Porsena, as a mark of honour. 



But Annius Fetialis^^ states, on the other hand, that the 

 equestrian statue, which stood opposite the Temple of Jupiter 

 Stator, in the vestibule of the house of Tarquinius Superbus, 

 was that of Yaleria,®^ the daughter of the consul Publicola ; and 

 that she was the only person that escaped and swam across 

 the Tiber; the .rest of the hostages that had been sent to 

 Porsena having been destroyed by a stratagem of Tarquinius. 



CHAP. 14. AT WHAT PERIOD ALL THE STATUES ERECTED BY 



PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WERE REMOVED FROM THE PUBLIC 

 PLACES. 



AVe are informed by L. Piso, that when M. ^milius and C. 

 Popilius were consuls, for the second time,^^ the censors, P. 

 Cornelius Bcipio and M. Popilius, caused all the statues 

 erected round the Forum in honour of those who had borne 

 the office of magistrates, to be removed ; with the exception of 

 those which had been placed there, either by order of the 



^^ We have an account of the exploit of Claelia in Livy, B, ii. c. 13, and 

 in Valerius Maxinius, B. iii. c. 2 : there is a reference to this statue iu 

 Seneca, de Consol. c. 16. — B. 



^- To King Porsena. ^^ See end of B. xvl. 



^* Plutarch says tliat it was uncertain whether the statue was erected to 

 Clcelia or to Valeria,— B. »^ a.u.c. 596.— B. 



