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5This spot is now called Velabrum, because when the river overflowed, as it often did, they used to cross it at about this point in ferry-boats, to go to the forum, and their word for ferry is “velatura.” But some say that it is so-called because from that point on, the street leading to the Hippodrome[6] from the forum is covered over with sails by the givers of a public spectacle, and the Roman word for sail is “velum.” It is for these reasons that honours are paid to this second Larentia amongst the Romans.
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Notes
[6] That is, the Circus Maximus.