VII. By which many waters, especially the Marcia, being supplied in great abundance, are conducted from the _specus_[59] (or from the temple of Hope?) on to the Aventine. II. 87. _Passages in which the Temple of Spes occurs in Livy._ “At the time when this disaster happened, Caius Horatius and Titus Menenius were in the Consulship. Menenius was immediately sent against the Etruscans, elated with their victory. He also was worsted in battle, and the enemy took possession of the Janiculum; nor would the City, which besides the war was distressed also by scarcity, have escaped a siege (the Etruscans _having passed the Tiber_), had not the Consul Horatius been recalled from the country of the Volscians. So near indeed did the enemy approach to the walls, that first the engagement was at _the temple of Spes_, in which little was gained on either side; again at the Porta Collina, in which the Romans gained some small advantage, and this, though far from decisive, yet by restoring to the soldiers their former courage, qualified them the better to contend with the enemy in future[60].” “At Rome a dreadful fire raged during two nights and one day; everything between the Salinæ (or salt wharf) and the Porta Carmentalis was levelled to the ground, as were the Æquimælian and the Jugarian streets. The fire catching the _temples_ of Fortuna, of mater Matuta and _of Spes_, on the outside of the gate, and spreading to a vast extent, consumed a great number of buildings, both religious and private[61].” “After this, in pursuance of a decree of the Senate, and an order of the people, an assembly of election was held by the city prætor, in which were created five commissioners for repairing the walls and towers, and two sets of triumvirs: one to search for the effects belonging to the temples, to register the offerings; the other to repair the _temples_ of Fortuna and mater Matuta within the Porta Carmentalis, and likewise _that of Spes_ on the outside of the gate, which had been consumed by fire the year before[62].”