Palus Caprae

The Palus Caprae is the lake-like body of water at the centre of the top left of this speculative map of Rome in 753 BCE.

The Palus Caprae (or Capreae;[1] meaning "Goat Marsh" or "the Goat's pool"[2]) was a site within the Campus Martius in Ancient Rome. In Roman mythology, the Palus Caprae was the place where Romulus underwent ascension into godhood.

  1. ^ Ovid, Fasti 2.491.
  2. ^ Pierre Grimal, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Blackwell, 1986, 1996, originally published 1951 in French), pp. 366 and 408.