ROMULUS DIVUS, TEMPLUM
* a building erected by Maxentius in honour of
his deified son Romulus (Cohen, Romulus, 1-12. The coins show considerable variation, but probably all refer to this building; Echkel, viii. 59)
and generally identified, until recent years, with the circular brick
structure on the east side of the Sacra via between the temple of Antoninus
and Faustina and the basilica of Constantine. On the epistyle of the
porch a fragmentary inscription, in which the name of Constantine
occurred (
CIL vi. 1147), which was still visible in the sixteenth century,
has led to the supposition that he took possession of the building after
the defeat of Maxentius (HJ 10; HC 232-236; HFP 48, 49); for other
theories see
PAX, TEMPLUM;
PENATES, TEMPLUM;
URBIS FANUM, and
reff.).
