Palatinus

A surname of Apollo at Rome, where Augustus, in commemoration of the battle of Actium, dedicated a temple to the god on the Palatine hill, in which subsequently a library was established.

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References

Sources

  • Cassius Dio, liii, 1.
  • Horace. Odes, i, 31; Epistles, i, 3.17.
  • Ovid. Ars Amatoria iii, 389.
  • Sextus Propertius. Elegies iv, 6.11.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.