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CHAP. 13. THE FIKRT EQUESTRIAN STATUKS PUBLICLY EKECTED 



AT HOME, AND IN 1IONOUU OF WHAT FEMALES STATUKS WKKE 

 I'UttUCLY KUECTED TH HUE. 



Pedestrian statues have been, undoubtedly, for a long time 

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

 considerable antiquity, and females even have participated in 

 this honour; for the statue of Clielia is equestrian,* 1 as if it 

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

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

 Brutus, who had expelled the kings, and through both of whom 

 Ckclia had been given as a hostage." I should have thought 

 that tliis statue, and that of Codes, were the iirst 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 Pi so stated that the statue of Clailia was erected by 

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

 up by Porsena, as a mark of honour. 



Hut Annius Fetialis* 3 states, on 1he other hand, that the 

 equestrian statue, which stood opposite the Temple of Jupiter 

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

 was that of Valeria, 151 the daughter of the consul Publieola ; and 

 that she was the only person that escaped and swam across 

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

 Porscnu having been destroyed by a stratagem of Tarquinius. 



CHAP. 14. AT WHAT PERIOD ALL THE STATUKS ERECTED 11 Y 



PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WKKE REMOVED FROM THE 1T1JL1C 

 PLACES. 



"NVe are informed by L. Piso, that when M. JEmilius and C. 

 Popilius were consuls, for the second time, 85 the censors, P. 

 Cornelius Scipio and M. Popilius, caused all the statues 

 erected round the Forum in honour of those who had borne 

 the ofh'ce of magistrates, to be removed ; with the exception of 

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



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

 in Valerius Maximus, B. iii. c. 2 : there is a reference to this btatuc in 

 Scncea, d< Coiisol. c. 16. B. 



*- To King 1'orsena. ' Sec end of B. xvi. 



** Plutarch says that it was uncertain whether the statue was erected to 

 Cla-lia or to Valeria. 13. * A.v.e. o%. B. 



