HERCULES INVICTUS
(Fast. Allif. cit.), Victor (al., Fast. Ant. ap.
NS 1921,
106), aedes:
a temple of Hercules near the porta Trigemina (ad portam
Trigeminam,
Macrob. iii. 6. io; Serv.
Aen. viii. 36. 3). Its day of
dedication was 13th August (Fast. Allif. ad Id. Aug., CIL ia. p. 217, 325;
Fast. Ant. cit.). It was probably close to the altar of
IUPPITER INVENTOR
(q.v.), which Hercules was said to have built after slaying Cacus (
Dionys.
i. 32). Whether this was the temple built by the merchant Marcus
Octavius Herrenus
1 (Masurius Sabinus ap.
Macrob. iii. 6. II; cf. Serv.
Aen. viii. 363; Panegyr. Maxim. 13), and whether it is alluded to on
a coin of Antoninus Pius (Froehner, Med. p. 56; Cohen, Anton. 454;
Rosch. i. 2289;
Jord. i. 2. 482) is entirely uncertain. (For this temple
and the considerable literature relating thereto, see
Rosch. i. 2903,
2905, 2916-2917; DAP 2. vi. 244; Altm. 32;
RE viii. 554, 556,
557, 558, 560; WR 275). Another coin (Cohen, Anton. 213) has a
strong claim to represent the temple and the altar of Iuppiter; the
former has eight columns, and so has a coin of Maximinn (Boll. Mus.
Civ. Padova, 1910, 131; Gnecchi, Medaglioni, ii. 128. 5; Boll. Ass.
Arch.
Rom. v. (1915) 109 sqq. (esp. 126-129), where the temple built
by Herrenus is identified with that of Hercules Victor in the forum
Boarium).
