Nunc de ipso dei templo pauca referenda sunt. Tullum Hostilium cum bis de Albanis, de Sabinis tertio triumphasset, invenio fanum Saturno ex voto consecravisse et Saturnalia tunc primum Romae instituta, quamvis Varro libro sexto, qui est De sacris aedibus, scribat aedem Saturni ad forum faciendum locasse L. Tarquinium regem, Titum vero Larcium dictatorem Saturnalibus eam dedicasse. Nec me fugit Gellium scribere senatum decresse ut aedes Saturni fieret, eique rei L. Furium tribunum militum praefuisse.

Now a few things must be said about this very temple of the god. I find that Tullus Hostilius consecrated a temple to Saturn because of a vow, when he had triumphed twice over the Albans and for the third time over the Sabines, and the Saturnalia was instituted at that time at Rome, although Varro, in his sixth book, which is entitled "On Sacred Shrines," writes that the king L. Tarquinius had had the contract for building the temple of Saturn in the Forum, but that the dictator Titus Larcius had dedicated it. Nor does it escape my notice that Gellius writes that the senate decreed that a temple to Saturn should be built, and the that military tribune L. Furius was put in charge of it.