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Aedes Vulcani |
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
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The temple of Vulcan. A temple of Vulcan existed in 214 B.C. and as late as the first century. Its exact site is not known, but it was near the boundary between the circu Flaminius and the campus martius proper. The reason why this temple was outside the pomerium is given by Vitruvius: (ut) Volcani vi e moenibus religionibus et sacrificiis evocata ab timore incendiorum aedificia videantur liberari. (Platner) |
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