[41] Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, xiv., No. 2213; G. Wilmanns, Exempla Inscriptionum Latinarum, No. 1767; H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, No. 3243.
[42] Notizie degli Scavi, 1885, p. 478; O. Rossbach, op. cit. p. 158; G. H. Wallis, Illustrated Catalogue, pp. 9 sq. The true character of this circular basement was first pointed out by Mr. A. B. Cook (Classical Review, xvi. (1902) p. 376). Previous writers had taken it for an altar or a pedestal. But the mosaic pavement and the bases of two columns which were found in position on it exclude the hypothesis of an altar and cannot easily be reconciled with that of a pedestal, for which, moreover, it appears to be too large. A rain-water gutter runs round it and then extends in the direction of the larger temple. As to the temple of Vesta at Rome see J. H. Middleton, The Remains of Ancient Rome, i. 297 sq.; O. Richter, Topographie der Stadt Rom² (Munich, 1902), pp. 88 sq.; G. Boni, in Notizie degli Scavi, May 1900, pp. 159 sqq.
[43] G. H. Wallis, Illustrated Catalogue, p. 30.
[44] J. Marquardt, Römische Staatsverwaltung, iii.² 336.
[45] Juvenal, iv. 60 sq.; Asconius, In Milonianam, p. 35, ed. Kiesseling and Schoell; Symmachus, Epist. ix. 128 and 129 (Migne’s Patrologia Latina, xviii. col. 355); Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vi., No. 2172, xiv., No. 4120; Wilmanns, Exempla Inscriptionum Latinarum, No. 1750. The Alban Vestals gave evidence at Milo’s trial in 52 B.C. (Asconius, l.c.); one of them was tried for breaking her vow of chastity late in the fourth century A.D. (Symmachus, l.c.).
[46] Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, xiv., Nos. 3677, 3679.
[47] Servius on Virgil, Aen. ii. 296; Macrobius, Saturn. iii. 4. 11.
[48] Statius, Sylvae, iii. 1. 55 sqq.; Gratius Faliscus, Cynegeticon, i. 483–492.
[49] J. Rendel Harris, The Annotators of the Codex Bezae (London, 1901), pp. 93–102.
[50] See below, vol. ii. pp. 324 sqq.