sacred to or called after Venus Murcia : Murciae or Murtiae metae (sc. in Circo)), so named because near the chapel of the goddess Murcia, Ap.Met. 6, 8, 6; Vallis, the valley in which her temple stood ,Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 404; Serv. Verg. A. 8, 636.