In the same group stood the famous sanctuary of Juno Regina, vowed by Camillus during the siege of Veii, and to which the Juno of the captured city was removed after she had given a verbal consent when asked whether she wished to go to Rome and inhabit a new temple, much as the modern queen of heaven is apt to do in modern times at Rome.[181] The Temples of Liberty and Juno were both rebuilt under Augustus; some imagine that they were under a common roof. If they were distinct buildings, nothing of the former remains; some beautiful columns built into the church of Sta. Sabina are all that remain of the temple of Juno, though Livy thought that her reign here would be eternal-- ... in Aventinum, æternam sedem suam.[182] Also belonging to this group was a Temple of Minerva. Sol abit a Geminis, et Cancri signa rubescunt: Cœpit Aventina Pallas in arce coli.[183] Here the dramatist Livius Andronicus, who lived upon the Aventine, was honoured after his death by a company of scribes and actors. Another poet who lived upon the Aventine was Ennius, who is described as inhabiting a humble dwelling, and being attended by a single female slave. The poet Gallus also lived here. Totis, Galle, jubes tibi me servire diebus, Et per Aventinum ter quater ire tuum![184] On the other side of the Aventine (above the Circus Maximus), which was originally covered with myrtle--a shrub now almost extinct at Rome--on the site now occupied by Sta. Prisca, was a more important Temple of Diana, sometimes called by the Sabine name of Murcia,--built in imitation of the temple of Diana at Ephesus. Propertius writes-- Phyllis Aventinæ quædam est vicina Dianæ;[185] and Martial-- Quique videt propius magna certamina Circi Laudat Aventinæ vicinus Sura Dianæ.[186] Here till the time of Dionysius was preserved the pillar of brass on which was engraved the law of Icilius. Near this were the groves of Simila, the retreat of the infamous association discovered and terribly punished at the time of the Greek wars; and--in the time of the empire--the gardens of Servilia, where she received the devotion of Julius Cæsar, and in which her son Brutus is said to have conspired his murder, and to have been interrogated by his wife Portia as to the mystery, which he refused to reveal to her, fearing her weakness under torture, until, by the concealment of a terrible wound which she had given to herself, she had proved to him that the daughter of Cato could suffer and be silent.