VEIOVIS, AEDES, IN CAPITOLIO
Livy states (xxxv. 41. 8):
aedes duae
Iovi eo anno (192 B.C.) in Capitolio dedicatae sunt. Voverat L. Furius
Purpurio praetor Gallico bello unam, alteram consul: dedicavit Q.
Marcius Ralla duumvir-a statement so improbable that it is generally
assumed that the reading of the source-aedes Vediovi .. .dedicata-
became in Livy's text aedes duae Iovis... dedicatae, and that this
error was accompanied by another which attributed the foundation of
two temples in Capitolio to Purpurio, the AEDES IN INSULA (q.v.) and the
AEDES INTER DUOS LUCOS (q.v.), which on the authority of this passage
was vowed by Purpurio in 198 and dedicated by Ralla in 192. All the
attempts hitherto made to reconcile Livy's statements involve a more
or less drastic treatment, and the question of the temples of Vediovis
in Rome cannot be determined until further evidence has been produced
(see Jord. Comm. in hon. Momms. 359-365;
Top. i. 2. 47, 111-112;
Gilb. iii. 82-84; Mommsen, CIL i². p. 305, 311; WR 236; Besnier,
249-265).
