VEIOVIS, AEDES
(templa, Ovid):
a temple of Veiovis inter duos lucos, in
the depression between the arx and Capitol (
Vitr. iv. 8. 4;
Gell. v. 12. 5),
dedicated on 7th March (Ov.
Fast. iii. 429-430; Fast. Praen. ad Non.
Mart., CIL i². p. 233, 311; Fast. Ant. ap.
NS 1921, 89). According to
Vitruvius (loc. cit) this temple was peculiar in having ' columns added
on the right and left of the flanks of the pronaos ' (tr. Morgan). It
contained a statue of the deity with arrows in one hand and a goat by
his side (
Gell. v. 12. ii; Ov.
Fast. iii. 443), in the form of a youthful
Jupiter with whom he is identified by Ovid, loc. cit. 437-439; cf. Fest.
379). It is possible that it is this statue (or another in the same temple ?)
that is mentioned by Pliny (
NH xvi. 216:
Nonne simulacrum Veiovis
in arce e cupresso durat a condita urbe DCLXI anno dicatum ?), who
used 'in arce' incorrectly (
Jord. i. 2. 115-116;
Gilb. ii. 100; WR 236;
for the date of foundation of this temple, see
AEDES VEIOVIS IN
CAPITOLIO).
