Saturnus, Aedes

Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium

C. Iulius Solinus

Aedem etiam, quae Saturni aerarium fertur, comites eius condiderunt in honorem Saturni, quem cultorem regionis illius cognoverant extitisse. Iidem et montem Capitolinum Saturnium nominaverunt.

His companions also founded the temple, which is called the treasury of Saturn, in honor of Saturn, whom they knew to have been an inhabitant of this region. The same people also named the Capitoline hill the Saturnian.

Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.

Texts

Ab Urbe Condita, 41.21.12
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.21.1-2
T. Livius (Livy)

Annales, 2.41
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Antiquitates Romanae, 7.72.13
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 6.1.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Bellum Civile, 1.31
Appianus

De Lingua Latina, 5.183
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

De Lingua Latina, 5.42
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

De Origine Gentis Romanae, 3.6
Sex. Aurelius Victor

De Verborum Significatu, 2L
Paulus Diaconus

De Vita Caesarum, 29.5
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

Epistulae, 10.3.1
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

Fabulae (Genealogiae), 261
Hyginus

Historiae Romanae, 45.17.3
Cassius Dio

In Milonianam, 36
Quintus Asconius Pedianus (Asconius)

In Vergilium Commentarius, 8.319
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

In Vergilium Commentarius, 2.116
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

Naturalis Historia, 15.32
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Saturnalia, 1.8.5
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Saturnalia, 1.8.4
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Saturnalia, 1.8.1
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Saturnalia, 1.8.3
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Saturnus Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Tiberius Gracchus, 10.6
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Images

Detail of Coffer and Modillion
Detail of Corona on the Cornice
Detail of Pedimental Dentils
Elevation of South Façade
Front Façade and Inscription
Rear View of Front Façade
View from Forum
View of Front Façade from the East