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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
FIDES, AEDES
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FIDES, AEDES
a temple of Fides, afterwards known as Fides Publica
(Val. Max.) or Fides Publica populi Romani (diplomata), on the Capitol.
The establishment of the cult and the erection of a shrine (sacrarium,
i(ero/v) is ascribed to Numa (Liv. i. 21. 4; Dionys. ii. 75; Plut. Numa 16),
probably on the site of the later temple. This was dedicated--and
presumably built-by A. Atilius Calatinus in 254 or 250 B.C. (Cic. de nat.
deor. ii. 61, cf. Aist. de sacris aedibus 16), and restored and re-dedicated
by M. Aemilius Scaurus in 115 B.C. (Cic. loc. cit.). The day of dedication
was 1st October(Fast. Arv. Amit. Paul. ad Kal. Oct., CIL 2. p. 214,215,242;
Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921,114). This temple was in Capitolio (Fast. locc. citt.;
Plin. NH xxxv. 100), and vicina Iovis optimi maximi (Cato ap. Cic. de off.
iii. 104), and probably inside the area Capitolina, at its south-east corner
near the porta Pandana Hulsen conjectures that the legend of Aracoeli (Chron. Min. iii. 428 ; cf. Mirabil. 13)
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)