Ara Victoriae
Altar of Victory
It was a gold statue of the goddess Victory worshipped in Rome and located in the Roman senate. The Altar was seized from the Greek general Pyrrhus by the Romans in 272 BC and removed from the senate in 382 AD by Roman emperor Gratian.
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