BOOK XXXIV. XI. 21-24 



with it ; and the statue of Hermodorus of Ephesus 

 the interpreter of the laws drafted by the decemvirs, 451-450 b.o 

 dedicated at the public cost, stood in the Assembly- 

 place of Rome. There was a different motive and 

 another reason — an important one — for the statue of 

 Marcus Horatius Cocles, which has survived even to 508 b.o. 

 the present day ; it was erected because he had 

 single-handed barred the enemy's passage of the 

 Bridge on Piles. Also, it does not at all surprise me 

 that statues of the Sibyl stand near the Beaked 

 Platforai though there are three of them — one 

 restored by Sextus Pacuvius Taurus, aedile of the 

 plebs, and two by Marcus Messalla. I should think 

 these statues and that of Attus Navius, all erected 

 in the period of Tarquinius Priscus, were the first, (6I6-579 

 if it were not for the statues on the Capitol of the ^-^'^ 

 kings who reigned before him, among them the 

 figures of Romulus and Tatius without the tunic, 

 as also that of Camillus on the Beaked Platform. 

 Also there was in front of the temple of the Castors " 

 an equestrian statue of Quintus Marcius Tremulus, 

 wearing a toga ; he had t\\ice vanquished the 

 Samnites, and by taking Anagni delivered the nation c. 305 b.c. 

 from payment of war-tax. Among the very old 

 statues are also those at the Platform of Tullus 

 Cloelius, Lucius Roscius, Spurius Nautius, and Gaius 

 Fulcinius, all assassinated by the people of Fidenae 438 b.o. 

 when on an embassy to them. It was the custom 

 for the state to confer this honour on those who had 

 been wrongfully put to death, as among others 

 Publius Junius and Titus Coruncanius, who had 

 been killed by Teuta the Queen of the IUyrians. 230 b.o. 

 It would seem not to be proper to omit the fact 

 noted by the annals that the statues of these persons, 



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