HONOS, AEDES
the oldest temple of Honos in Rome, just outside the
porta Collina, dating from republican times but probably not earlier
than the third century. All that is known of it is stated by Cicero (de
leg. ii. 58:
nostis extra portam Collinam aedem Honoris: aram in eo
loco fuisse proditum est. Ad eam cum lamina esset inventa et in ea
scriptura DOMINA HONORIS, ea causa fuit huius aedis dedicandae. Sed
cum multa in eo loco sepulcra fuissent, exarata sunt; statuit enim
collegium locum publicum non potuisse privata religione teneri 1, but an
archaic inscription (
CIL vi. 3692=30913:
2 M (?) Bicoleio V. l. Honore
donum dede(t) mereto), found under the east wing of the Ministero delle
Finanze, probably belongs to it, and had not been removed from its
original site. A dedication to Virtus (
CIL vi. 31061) may also have been
set up in it (HJ 414;
RE viii. 2293;
Rosch. i. 2707;
DE iii. 964).