In the centre of the Forum stood a fig-tree, an olive and a vine (s. Ficus Olea Vitis I, 485), and a statue of the satyr Marsyas, carrying a full wine-skin on his left shoulder. The statue with the fig-tree appears on the two Plutei Traiani reliefs (q. v. II, 902, 905), and on coins of L. Marcius Censorinus, which were struck between 86 and 81 B.C. (BMC, Rep I, p. 338, pl. XL, 3, 4). Copies of the statue of Marsyas, which stood near a praetor's tribunal in Rome, were set up as symbols of liberty in the fora of those provincial towns which possessed the ius Italicum.
Statua Marsyae, unpaved area of the Forum in which was the statue was situated, together with the fig and vine
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