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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 545 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ancient See also:Rome, the name of a See also:family belonging to the Scribonian gene. It is chiefly interesting for its connexion with the Puteal Scribonianum or Puteal Libonis in the See also:forum at Rome,3 dedicated or restored by one of its. members, perhaps the See also:praetor of 204 B.c., or the See also:tribune of the See also:people in 149. In its vicinity the praetor's tribunal, removed from the comitium in the 2nd See also:century B.C., held its sittings, which led to the See also:place becoming the haunt of litigants, See also:money-lenders and business people. According to ancient authorities, the Puteal Libonis Puteal was the name given to an erection (or enclosure) on a spot 'which had been struck by See also:lightning; it was so called from its resemblance to the See also:stone kerb or See also:low enclosure See also:round a well (puteus). was between the temples of See also:Castor and See also:Vesta, near the Porticus Julia and the Arcus Fabiorum, but no remains have been discovered. The See also:idea that an irregular circle of travertine blocks, found near the See also:temple of Castor, formed See also:part of the puteal is now abandoned. See See also:Horace, Sat. ii. 6. 35, Epp. i. 19. 8; See also:Cicero, See also:Pro Sestio, 8; for the well-known See also:coin of L. Scribonius Libo, representing the puteal of Libo, which rather resembles a See also:cippus (sepulchral See also:monument) or an See also:altar, with See also:laurel wreaths, two lyres and a pair of pincers or See also:tongs below the wreaths (perhaps symbolical of Vulcanus as forger of lightning), see C.

Hulsen, The See also:

Roman Forum (Eng. trans. by J. B. See also:Carter, 1906), p. 150, where a See also:marble See also:imitation found at Vcii is also given.

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