Palus Caprae

In Roman mythology, the Palus Caprae was the place where Romulus underwent ascension into godhood.

The marsh was fed by a stream called Petronia Amnis,[3][4] but by the Augustan period it had disappeared or been drained.

[5] The Palus Caprae was in the small basin where the Pantheon was later built,[6] west of the Altar of Mars supposed to have been established by Numa Pompilius, Romulus's successor.

[9] On the Nones of Quinctilis (July 7), Romulus was reviewing the army on the Campus Martius near the Palus Caprae.

Suddenly a storm broke out, accompanied by a solar eclipse, and a deluge consumed the place.

The Palus Caprae is the lake-like body of water at the centre of the top left of this speculative map of Rome in 753 BCE.