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Lacus Curtius

The Lacus Curtius is an area in medio foro connected with the earliest phases of Rome's occupation. By the late Republican period, it had become a small basin set inside a paved area. Livy relates the famous episode of the Sabine Mettius Curtius in relation to his description of the site.

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