This Day in Ancient History

On this day in ancient Rome, August 5, in 79 or 78 B.C., Cicero's beloved only daughter, Tullia, celebrated her birthday. It was also the feast day of the Roman personification Salus, whose temple, on the Quirinal, was dedicated in 302 B.C. after the second Samnite War. Salus was a personification of the safety of Rome, but from the second century B.C. came to be associated with the Greek Hygieia 'Health'.

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