Tum [M. Varro] adscripsit de locis in quibus senatusconsultum fieri iure posset, docuitque confirmavitque, nisi in loco per augurem constituto, quod 'templum' appellaretur, senatusconsultum factum esset, iustum id non fuisse. Propterea et in curia Hostilia et in Pompeia et post in Iulia, cum profana ea loca fuissent, templa esse per augures constituta, ut in iis senatusconsulta more marioum iusta fieri possent.

Then he [Marcus Varro] added a list of the places in which a decree of the senate might lawfully be made, and he showed and maintained that this was regular only in a place which had been appointed by an augur, and called a 'temple.' Therefore in the Hostilian Senate House and the Pompeian, and later in the Julian, since those were unconsecrated places, 'temples' were established by the augurs, in order that in those places lawful decrees of the senate might be made according to the usage of our forefathers.