IUNO REGINA, TEMPLUM
(aedes, Liv. bis;
νεώς, Dionys.;
ἱερον, Mon. Anc.,
Plut.):
a temple on the Aventine vowed by Camillus just before the
taking of Veii in 396 B.C. to the Iuno Regina of Veii (
quae nunc Veios
colis), and dedicated by him in 392 (
Liv. v. 21. 3, 22. 6-7, 23. 7, 31. 3,
52. 10). In this temple was the wooden statue of the goddess brought
by Camillus from Veii (
Dionys. xiii. 3; Plut. Cam. 6; Val.
Max. i. 8. 3;
Rosch. ii. 609-610), and it is mentioned several times in connection with
gifts and sacrifices offered in atonement for prodigia (
Liv. xxi. 62. 8;
xxii. I. 17;
xxxi. 12. 9; cf. xxvii. 37. 7). It was restored by Augustus
(Mon.
Anc. iv. 6), but is not mentioned afterwards. Two dedicatory
inscriptions (
CIL vi. 364-365) found near the church of S. Sabina indicate
the approximate site of the temple, which corresponds (not with the
church itself, which stands on the site of a private house, as recent
discoveries have shown; see
SR ii. 329-342; DAP 2. xiii. 119-126;
Mufioz, Chiesa di S. Sabina 1924; HC 430-431) with its place in the
lustral procession of 207 B.C. (
Liv. xxvii. 37. 7; WR 426), near the upper
end of the clivus Publicius (HJ 165-167; Merlin 106, 196-201, 301;
WR 187-190;
Gilb. iii. 77-78, 444;
Rosch. ii. 600-601, 603;
RE x.
1 119). The day of dedication was Ist September (Hemer. Arv. ad Kal.
Sept.,
CIL vi. 2295 =32482).