IUNO SOSPITA, AEDES (1)
(templum, Cicero):
a temple vowed in 197 B.C. by
the consul C. Cornelius Cethegus during the Insubrian war (
Liv. xxxii.
30. 10), and dedicated in 194
1 (
Liv. xxxiv. 53. 3) on 1st February (Fast.
Ant. ap.
NS 1921, 86). It is said (Cic. de
Div. i. 4. 99; Obseq. 75) that
L. Julius, consul in 90 B.C., restored a temple of luno Sospita, in consequence of a dream of Caecilia, the daughter of Q. Caecilius Metellus
Balearicus, and it is probable that it is this temple of Iuno Sospita in
Rome that is meant rather than the more famous one at Lanuvium
(HJ 509-510;
Gilb. iii. 82, 430; WR 188;
Rosch. ii. 596). It was in
the forum Holitorium, and is generally identified with the smallest of the
three temples (though Frank prefers the central one-TF 126-130) that
lie side by side beneath the present church of S. Nicola in Carcere. These
temples have the same orientation, and the other two are those of
SPES
and
IANUS (qq.v.). The smallest is of the Doric order, hexastyle,
amphiprostyle and peripteral, and built of travertine. Five of its
columns with portions of the entablature remain, built into the south
wall of the church (HJ 511-514; Delbriick, Die drei Tempel am Forum
Holitorium, Rome 1903
2; Hulsen,
Mitt. 1906, 169-192).
