CHAP. IIII. The gates of Romulus his citie.
ROmulus when he died, left the citie of Rome with three gates, namely Carmentalis, Romana, and Pandana. Others adde a fourth thereto, to wit, Ianualis.
Carmentalis took the name of Carmentis the mother of Evander, whose chappell Carmen∣tale stood before the gate. This gate stood under the Capitoll on the right hand, betweene the cliffe Tarpeius and the Tyber, over-against the church now of S. Katherine, toward the shew place Flaminius. This was afterwards named Scelerata, for that without this gate, in the temple of Lanus, the act of Senate passed, for the sending of the three hundred Fab\̄y to Cremera: who went foorth at this gate, and were slaine every one at Cremera.
Romana was so called of Romulus: built it was where now the gardens are belonging to the new church of S. Marie, not farre from the angle of the mount Palatine, in the bottome of the cliffe of Vi∣ctoria. Some affirme, that this gate was afterwards called Mugonia, of the loowing of kine and oxen: others name it Trigonia of three corners that it had.
Pandana was so cleped, because it stood open for things to bee brought through it into the cittie. The same was called Libera or Romulida. The place for it they assigned where the gate Saturnia stood, bearing the name of the old citie, so called and after destroied.
Ianualis carried the name of the temple of Ianus, which is not far off. It stood sometime at the very foot of the hill Viminalis.