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They were kept in the Capitol (i), and Rigaltius, 
from a pafifage in Hyginus, obferves that the flandard 
of the foot was depohted in the temple of Juno Mo* 
neta (2). Now the Capitol was burnt no lefs than three 
times; firfl: in the civil war of Sylla (3); then again 
when Sabinus was befieged in it by the troops of Vi- 
tellius (4) ; and the third time in that dreadful con- 
flagration which happened in the reign of Titus (y). 
Whether the ftandards were deftroyed in the firfl of 
thefe fires is uncertain ; but they could hardly efcape 
the fury and confufion of the fecond, when, accord- 
ing to Pliny, the temple of Juno Moneta feems to 
have been burnt to the ground (6). And, if we 
may credit Xiphilin (whole account of the third is in 
fome meafure confirmed by Spartian), not only the 
temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, but thofe adjoining to 
it, were burnt down in the laft (7). 
Vefpafian 
(1) This appears from the infcription on Vefpafian’s congius, 
and from R. Fannius. And Jul. Capitolinus in Maximinis, men- 
tions the amphora Capitolina. 
(2) Hyginus de L:mit. conftituend. near the end, diftinguifhes 
the Roman foot by the name of Pes Monetalis. That this temple 
was in the Capitol, appears from Livy, lib. vii. c. 28. Cicero 
de Divin. lib. i. and Pliny, lib. xxxiv. cap. 7. Suidas (v. Mophtsj) 
tells us the mint was kept here. 
(3) Taciti Hift. lib. iii. This fire is likewife mentioned by 
Plutarch and Appian. 
(4) Tacitus, ibid. 
(5) Xiphilin in Tito. Sueton. in Domit. c. 5. 
(6) Pliny, lib. xxxiv. c. 7. fays, “ ./Etas noftra vidit in Ca- 
pitolio, priufquam id noviflime conflagravit, a Vitellianis incenfum, 
in cell a Junonis canem ex aere, &c.” And if the donatives were 
deftroyed, it is not likely the ftandards fhould be faved in a fcene 
of fuch confufion. 
Tor rs viuv m A lot tS KarriTa\ns t tmv vvvvauv ctvrti, 
KccTiKa.v<ny. Xiphilin in Tito. Spartian, enumerating the public 
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