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FIDES—FLORA
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Fides, aedes : a temple of Fides, afterwards known as Fides Publica
(Vai. Max.) or Fides Publica populi Romani (diplomata), on the Capitol.
The establishment of the cult and the erection of a shrine (sacrarittm,
iepov) is ascribed to Numa (Liv. i. 21. 4 ; Dionys. ii. 75 ; Plut. Numa 16),
probably on the site of the later temple. This was dedicated—and
presumably built—by A. Atilius Calatinus in 254 or 250 b.c. (Cic. de nat.
deor. ii. 61, cf. Aust, de sacris aedibus 16), and restored and re-dedicated
by M. Aemilius Scaurus in 115 b.c. (Cic. loc. cit.). The day of dedication
was istOctober(Fast. Arv. Amit. Paul, ad Kai. Oct., CIL i2. p. 214,215,242 ;
Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 114). This temple was in Capitolio (Fast. locc. citt.;
Plin. NH xxxv. 100), and vicina Iovis optimi maximi (Cato ap. Cic. de off.
iii. 104), and probably inside the area Capitolina, at its south-east corner
near the porta Pandana 1 (Hulsen, Festschrift an Kiepert 211-214), rather
than outside (Hermes 1883, 115-116; Rosch. ii. 709). It was used for
meetings of the senate (Vai. Max. iii. 17 ; App. BC i. 16), and on its walls
were fastened tablets on which international agreements were probably
inscribed (Ann. d. Inst. 1858, 198 ff.). In 43 b.c. a great storm tore off
some of these tablets (Cass. Dio xlv. 17. 3 ; Obseq. 128). The
diplomata of honourably discharged soldiers were also fastened up here
(CIL iii. pp. 902, 916 ; Suppl. p. 2034). The temple contained a painting
by Apelles of an old man teaching a youth to play the lyre (Plin. xxxv.
100), but nothing is known of its appearance, construction or later
history (Jord. i. 2. 42 ; RE vi. 2281-2283 ; Rosch. i. 1481-1483 ; WR
I33-I34).
Fides, templum : a temple of Fides on the Palatine, which, according to
Agathocles, 7rep\ Κυζικου, as quoted by Festus (269), was dedicated by
Rhome, the daughter of Ascanius, who came to Italy with Aeneas.
There is no other mention of the temple, and its existence is very doubtful
(HJ 46 ; RE vi. 2281 ; Rosch. i. 1482 ; WR 133).
Figlinae (in figlinis) : a district on the Esquiline hill, just inside the
Servian wall, so named from its potteries (Varro, LL v. 50 ; cf. Fest. 344 ;
Jord. ii. 255).
Flora, \edes : a temple of Flora, built by the aediles Lucius and Marcus
Publicius, in 240 2 or 238 b.c. (cf. BM. Rep. i. 469, n. 3) ; restored by
Augustus, in part at least, and dedicated by Tiberius in 17 a.d. (Tac. Ann.
ii. 49 ) ; and probably again restored in the fourth century by the younger
Symmachus (Anth. Lat. iv. 112-114). It stood on the slope of the
1 Hiilsen conjectures that the legend of Aracoeli (Chron. Min. iii. 428 ; cf. Mirabil. 13)
arose from a wrong reading of the inscription on an altar : ‘ Fidei Aug(ustae) sacr(um) ’ as
Fi(lio) Dei Aug(ustus) sacr(avit). See his Bilder aus der Geschichte des Kapitols (Rome,
τθ99, 31) ! Journ. Brit, and Amer. Arch. Soc. iv. 39-47 ; HCh 323 ; Town Planning Review
xii. (1927), 162.
2 So Veil. i. 14. 8 (acc. to CIL and HJ 118 ; WR makes it 241) ; Plin. NH xviii. 286
is the authority for the later date. The date of foundation is given as 28th April by
Fast. Praen. (while Fast. Allif. (13th Aug.) refers to a restoration ; see CIL i2. p. 325) and
the Floralia lasted from that date till 3rd May.
A.D.R.
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209
Fides, aedes : a temple of Fides, afterwards known as Fides Publica
(Vai. Max.) or Fides Publica populi Romani (diplomata), on the Capitol.
The establishment of the cult and the erection of a shrine (sacrarittm,
iepov) is ascribed to Numa (Liv. i. 21. 4 ; Dionys. ii. 75 ; Plut. Numa 16),
probably on the site of the later temple. This was dedicated—and
presumably built—by A. Atilius Calatinus in 254 or 250 b.c. (Cic. de nat.
deor. ii. 61, cf. Aust, de sacris aedibus 16), and restored and re-dedicated
by M. Aemilius Scaurus in 115 b.c. (Cic. loc. cit.). The day of dedication
was istOctober(Fast. Arv. Amit. Paul, ad Kai. Oct., CIL i2. p. 214,215,242 ;
Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 114). This temple was in Capitolio (Fast. locc. citt.;
Plin. NH xxxv. 100), and vicina Iovis optimi maximi (Cato ap. Cic. de off.
iii. 104), and probably inside the area Capitolina, at its south-east corner
near the porta Pandana 1 (Hulsen, Festschrift an Kiepert 211-214), rather
than outside (Hermes 1883, 115-116; Rosch. ii. 709). It was used for
meetings of the senate (Vai. Max. iii. 17 ; App. BC i. 16), and on its walls
were fastened tablets on which international agreements were probably
inscribed (Ann. d. Inst. 1858, 198 ff.). In 43 b.c. a great storm tore off
some of these tablets (Cass. Dio xlv. 17. 3 ; Obseq. 128). The
diplomata of honourably discharged soldiers were also fastened up here
(CIL iii. pp. 902, 916 ; Suppl. p. 2034). The temple contained a painting
by Apelles of an old man teaching a youth to play the lyre (Plin. xxxv.
100), but nothing is known of its appearance, construction or later
history (Jord. i. 2. 42 ; RE vi. 2281-2283 ; Rosch. i. 1481-1483 ; WR
I33-I34).
Fides, templum : a temple of Fides on the Palatine, which, according to
Agathocles, 7rep\ Κυζικου, as quoted by Festus (269), was dedicated by
Rhome, the daughter of Ascanius, who came to Italy with Aeneas.
There is no other mention of the temple, and its existence is very doubtful
(HJ 46 ; RE vi. 2281 ; Rosch. i. 1482 ; WR 133).
Figlinae (in figlinis) : a district on the Esquiline hill, just inside the
Servian wall, so named from its potteries (Varro, LL v. 50 ; cf. Fest. 344 ;
Jord. ii. 255).
Flora, \edes : a temple of Flora, built by the aediles Lucius and Marcus
Publicius, in 240 2 or 238 b.c. (cf. BM. Rep. i. 469, n. 3) ; restored by
Augustus, in part at least, and dedicated by Tiberius in 17 a.d. (Tac. Ann.
ii. 49 ) ; and probably again restored in the fourth century by the younger
Symmachus (Anth. Lat. iv. 112-114). It stood on the slope of the
1 Hiilsen conjectures that the legend of Aracoeli (Chron. Min. iii. 428 ; cf. Mirabil. 13)
arose from a wrong reading of the inscription on an altar : ‘ Fidei Aug(ustae) sacr(um) ’ as
Fi(lio) Dei Aug(ustus) sacr(avit). See his Bilder aus der Geschichte des Kapitols (Rome,
τθ99, 31) ! Journ. Brit, and Amer. Arch. Soc. iv. 39-47 ; HCh 323 ; Town Planning Review
xii. (1927), 162.
2 So Veil. i. 14. 8 (acc. to CIL and HJ 118 ; WR makes it 241) ; Plin. NH xviii. 286
is the authority for the later date. The date of foundation is given as 28th April by
Fast. Praen. (while Fast. Allif. (13th Aug.) refers to a restoration ; see CIL i2. p. 325) and
the Floralia lasted from that date till 3rd May.
A.D.R.
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