"Qua Velabra solent in Circum ducere pompas, Nil præter salices crassaque canna fuit, Sæpe suburbanas rediens conviva per undas Cantat, et ad nautas ebria verba jacit. Nondum conveniens diversis iste figuris Nomen ab averso ceperat amne deus. Hic quoque lucus erat juncis et arundine densus, Et pede velato non adeunda palus. Stagna recesserunt, et aquas sua ripa coërcet: Siccaque nunc tellus. Mos tamen ille manet." _Fast._ vi. 405. We even know the price which was paid for being ferried across the Velabrum: "it was a _quadrans_, three times as much as one pays now for the boat at the Ripetta."[76] The creation of the Cloaca Maxima had probably done much towards draining, but some fragments of the marsh remained to a late period. According to Varro the name of the Velabrum was derived from _vehere_, because of the boats which were employed to convey passengers from one hill to the other.[77] Others derive the name from _vela_, also in reference to the mode of transit, or, according to another idea, in reference to the awnings which were stretched across the street to shelter the processions,--though the name was in existence long before any processions were thought of. It was the waters of the Velabrum which bore the cradle of Romulus and Remus from the Tiber, and deposited it under the famous fig-tree of the Palatine. * * * * * On the left of the Via dei Fienili (shut in by a railing, generally closed, but which will be opened on appealing to the sacristan next door) is the round _Church of S. Teodoro_. The origin of this building is unknown. It used to be called the temple of Romulus, on the very slight foundation that the famous bronze wolf, mentioned by Dionysius as existing in the temple of Romulus, was found near this spot. Dyer supposes that it may have been the Temple of Cybele; this, however, was upon, and not under, the Palatine. Be they what they may, the remains were dedicated as a Christian church by Adrian I., in the eighth century, and some well preserved mosaics in the tribune are of that time.