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Encyclopedia Britannica



REGILLUS

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 39 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REGILLUS , an ancient lake of Latium,
Italy
 , famous in the legendary history of Rome as the lake in the neighbourhood of which occurred (496 B.c.) the battle which finally decided the hegemony of Rome in Latium. During the battle, so runs the story, the dictator Postumius vowed a temple to Castor and Pollux, who were specially venerated in
Tusculum
 , the
chief
  city of the Latins (it being a Roman usage to invoke the aid of the gods of the enemy), who appeared during the battle, and brought the news of the victory to Rome, watering their horses at the
spring
  of Juturna, close to which their temple in the Forum was erected. There can be little doubt that the lake actually existed. Of the various identifications proposed, the best is that of Nibby, who finds it in a now dry crater lake (Pantano Secco), drained by an emissarium, the date of which is uncertain, some 2 M. N. of
Frascati
 . Along the
south
  bank of the lake, at some 30 or 40 ft. above the present bottom, ran the aqueducts of the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus. Most of the other sites proposed are not, as Regillus should be, within the limits of the territory of
Tusculum
 .
See T.
Ashby
  in Rendiconti dei Lincei (1898), 103 sqq., and Classical
Review
 , 1898. (T. As.)


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