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Aedes Apollin.

Aedes Apollin.

aedes : a building for habitation : a dwelling of the gods, a sanctuary, a temple, a simple edifice, without division into smaller apartments, while templum is a large and splendid structure, consecrated by the augurs, and belonging to one or more dieties; but after the Augustan period aedes was used for temple
Apollo : Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, twin brother of Diana, and god of the sun. On account of his omnicience, god of divination; on account of his lightnings, god of archery (hence represented with quiver and dart), and of the pestilence caused by heat; but his priests were the first physicians, also god of the healing art; and since he communicated oracles in verse, god of poetry and music, persiding over the Muses, etc.

The earliest worship of Apollo in Rome was connected with the Apollinare, an altar or grove that was situated just west of the Capitolium, between it and the porticus Octaviae. On this spot a temple was built in 429 B.C., which had been vowed the year before in consequence of a plague. This was the only temple of Apollo in Rome until Augustus erected that in the Palatine. It was restored in 32 B.C. , and probably again in the years 356-359 A.D. Portions of the foundation wall of opus quadratum have been found beneath the houses on the south side of the piazza Campitelli, and a few fragments of the entablature with reliefs. This temple was frequently used for extra-pomerial sessions of the senate, and it contained many works of art, among them the famous Niobe group, and treasures of various kinds. (Platner)

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