Noctes Atticae

A. Gellius

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 maiorum iusta fieri possent.

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.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae (Volume III. Books 14-20), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 212, translated by J.C. Rolfe, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1927, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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