IUVENTAS, AEDES
a temple of Iuventas (Hebe) vowed by M. Livius
Salinator on the day of the battle of the Metaurus in 207 B.C., begun by
him when censor in 204, and dedicated by C. Licinius Lucullus in 193
(
Liv. xxxvi. 36. 5-6). It was burned in 16 B.C. (Cass.
Dio liv. 19. 7:
τὸ τῆς Νεότητος μέγαρον) and restored by Augustus (Mon.
Anc. iv. 8
=
Grk. x. 12:
ναὸς Νεότητος). It is possible that in later times the
Roman youth on assuming the toga virilis made their offerings in this
temple, although this custom was assigned by Lucius Piso to Servius
Tullius (
Dionys. iv. 15. 5), and the early offerings were made at the shrine
of Iuventas on the Capitol. This temple was ' in circo Maximo ' (Liv. loc.
cit.) and near that of Summanus (Plin.
NH xxix. 57), therefore probably
on the Aventine side, towards the west end of the circus (HJ 119;
Rosch. ii. 765;
Gilb. iii. 93; WR 136).
