"Lux eadem Marti festa est; quem prospicit extra Appositum Tectæ Porta Capena viæ." _Ovid, Fast._ vi. 191. It is probably in allusion to this temple that Propertius says: "Armaque quum tulero portæ votiva Capenæ, Subscribam, salvo grata puella viro." _Prop._ iv. _Eleg._ 3. Martial alludes to a little temple of Hercules near this: "Capena grandi porta qua pluit gutta, Phrygiæque Matris Almo qua lavat ferrum, Horatiorum qua viret sacer campus, Et qua pusilli fervet Herculis fanum." _Mart._ iii. _Ep._ 47. Near the gate also stood the tomb of the murdered sister of the Horatii,[192] with the temples of Honour and Virtue, vowed by Marcellus and dedicated by his son,[193] and a fountain, dedicated to Mercury: "Est aqua Mercurii portæ vicina Capenæ; Si juvat expertis credere, numen habet. Huc venit incinctus tunicas mercator, et urna Purus suffita, quam ferat, haurit aquam. Uda fit hinc laurus: lauro sparguntur ab uda Omnia, quæ dominos sunt habitura novos." _Ovid, Fast._ v. 673. It was at the Porta Capena that the survivor of the Horatii met his sister. "Horatius went home at the head of the army, bearing his triple spoils. But as they were drawing near to the Capenian gate, his sister came out to meet him. Now she had been betrothed in marriage to one of the Curiatii, and his cloak, which she had wrought with her own hands, was borne on the shoulders of her brother; and she knew it, and cried aloud, and wept for him she had loved. At the sight of her tears Horatius was so wrath that he drew his sword, and stabbed his sister to the heart; and he said, 'So perish the Roman maiden who shall weep for her country's enemy!'"--_Arnold's Hist. of Rome_, i. 16. Among the many other historical scenes with which the Porta Capena is connected, we may remember that it was here that Cicero was received in triumph by the senate and people of Rome, upon his return from banishment B.C. 57. * * * * * Two roads lead to the Via S. Sebastiano, one the Via S. Gregorio, which comes from the Coliseum beneath the arch of Constantine; the other, the street which comes from the Ghetto, through the Circus Maximus, between the Palatine and Aventine. The first gate on the left, after the junction of these roads, is that of the vineyard of the monks of S. Gregorio, in which the site of the Porta Capena was found. The remains discovered have been reburied, owing to the indifference or jealousy of the government; but the vineyard is worth entering on account of the picturesque view it possesses of the Palace of the Cæsars. On the right, a lane leads up the Pseudo-Aventine to the Church of Sta. Balbina, described Chap. VIII.