SPES, AEDES
a temple in the forum Holitorium, built and dedicated by
A. Atilius Calatinus during the first Punic war (Cic. de leg. ii. 28; de nat.
deor. ii. 61 (if Spes is to be read here instead of Fides) ; Tac.
Ann. ii. 49;
HJ 508-509;
Rosch. iv. 1296). It was struck by lightning in 218 B.C.
(
Liv. xxi. 62. 4), burned in 213 and restored the following year by a
special commission (
Liv. xxv. 7. 6; cf. xxiv. 47. 15-16), and burned
again in 31 (Cass. Dio 1. 10. 3:
ναὸς ᾿Ελπίδος). Germanicus dedicated
the temple in 17 A.D. (Tac.
Ann. ii. 49), necessarily after a restoration,
but it is altogether improbable that Augustus failed to repair the damage
of 31 B.C., and it is to him that Frank (who identifies it with the southern
temple) attributes the existing structure. In 179 B.C. M. Fulvius built
a
porticus post Spei a Tiberi ad aedem APOLLINIS MEDICI (q.v.)-so
the editors: Frank prefers the MS. reading post Spei ad Tiberim, i.e.
the temple of Spes near the Tiber (
Liv. xl. 5 . 6; cf. DAP 2. vi. 246). The
day of dedication was Ist August (Fast. Arv. Vall. Ant. ap.
NS 1921,
104, ad Kal. Aug., CIL i². p. 214, 240, 248, 323; Praen.
NS 1897, 421;
EE ix. 740).
There is no further mention of this temple, but it is probably the
middle and largest of the three of which the ruins now exist beneath
the church of S. Nicola in Carcere and belong for the most part to the
period of the republic. It was about 30 metres long and io wide, of
the Ionic order, and amphiprostyle hexastyle. A lofty flight of steps,
twelve or thirteen in number, led up to the pronaos, and in the middle
of these steps was a long pedestal. Three of the fluted columns of
travertine, 8.70 metres in height and 6.90 in diameter, are built into
the facade, while portions of the cella wall and of other columns have
been incorporated in other parts of the church (for the description of
these remains and the literature, see Delbrueck, Die drei Tempel am
forum Holitorium, Rome 1903; Hellenistische
Bauten ii. 431; GOtt.
Gel.
Anz. 1904, 561-563;
Mitt. 1906, 91 ; HJ 511-514; TF 126-130).