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dedicated by Caius Flavius, the Curulis FEdilis, and Cornelius Bar-
betus, the Pontifex Maximus, who was reluctantly compelled by the
people to dictate the form of words, although he insisted that no one
below the rank of a Consul or a Commander-in-chief ought to dedi-
cate a temples.
The next mention of it is in the year b.c. 216 by Livy, who says
it was founded in the arx by Marcus Aurelius, in fulfilment of a vow
of Lucius Manlius a few years before
In the year b.c. 211, Livy mentions that the statue of Victory on
the summit of the temple of Concord was struck by lightning, and
fell as far as the other emblems of Victory on the antefixce, where it
-remained stuck fast, which makes it appear that it was of bronze, and
partially melted by the lightning u.
The LEdes Concordiae is enumerated among the three senacula,
or places for the assembling of the Senate. In b.c. 121 a temple
of Concord in the Forum, and a Basilica Opimia, are mentioned
as built or rebuilt (?) by the Consul Opimius.
Many modern writers assume that there were two temples, one in
the Forum, the other in the Arx, which they consider to have stood
on the summit of the Capitoline Hill; but as this temple, although
fronting the Forum and almost in it, which agrees exactly with the
words of the ancient authors, is still within the wall of the Capitol,
it seems more probable that the Arx or Citadel of the City was at
that period the whole of the Capitol, and not merely a small part
of it. Whether this was the temple rebuilt by Augustus and Livia,
as is mentioned by Ovidx, and dedicated by Tiberius, or they built
a new temple in the portions of Livia, is another doubtful question;
but a temple of Concord is certainly mentioned by Ovid as being
dedicated by Livia to her husband Augustus; he calls it “a magnifi-
cent temple, which she dedicated to her beloved husband.” He
then mentions her splendid portico, which, he adds, was on the site
of a very large house, which had been levelled to the ground by

s “JEdem Concordiee in area Vul-
cani summa invidia no'bilinm dedicavit.”
(Livii Hist., lib. ix. c. 46.)
1 Livii Hist., lib. xxii. c. 33.
u Ibid., lib. xxvi. c. 23,
x “Te quoque magnifies, Concordia,
dedicat aede
Livia, quam caro praestitit ilia viro.
Disce tamen, veniens aetas; ubi Livia
nunc est
Porticus, immensae tecta fuere domus.
Urbis opus domus una fuit : spatium-

que tenebat,
Quo brevius muris oppida multa
tenent.
Hcec aequata solo est, nullo sub crimine
regni,
Sed quia luxuria visa nocere sua est.
Sustinuit tantas operum subvertere
moles
Totque suas heres perdere Caesar
opes. ”
(Ovidii Fasti, lib. vi. 1. 637 to 646.)