But all the sacred edifices which crowned the Capitoline were subordinate to the Templum Jovis Capitolini, standing on a platform of eight thousand square feet, and built of the richest materials.

Vos vero veluti in templum ac sacrarium quoddam vos duci putetis, &c. Suavis et utilis cognitio.

ut pedum ac tibiarum pars aliqua conspiciatur, dum templum aut locum aliquem adierit.

Immenso sumptu templum et aedes, &c. 5230.

Adeunt templum ut rem divinam audiant, ut ipsae simulant, sed vel

Asylus virginum deformium Cassandrae templum.

clarum divino lumine templum Ingreditur, cultuque tuo mansuescere gaudet.

Jupiter hoc templum, ut, siquando relinquit Olympum, Atthide non alius desit Olympus, habet.

On the same spot were, "Carcer Socratis, templum honoris".

Such was the opinion of some of the ancient sun-worshippers, whose adorations were always performed in the open air, because they thought no temple was spacious enough to contain the sun; and hence the saying, "Mundus universus est templum solis"the universe is the temple of the sun.

"Non datur nobis potestas adeundi templum nisi nudibus pedibus.