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templum latin

The rostra itself may have been considered a templum.

The original meaning of the Latin word templum was this sacred space, and only later referred to a building.

Medieval Latin writers also used the word templum.

Sacrifices, chiefly of animals, would take place at an open-air altar within the templum.

It was thus a structure that housed the deity's image, distinguished from the templum or sacred district.

A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur.

At the culmination of the process, the tribes were each called up to the templum on the Rostra to deliver their votes.

The passage of birds through this templum indicated divine favor or disfavor for a given undertaking.

The result was a locus inauguratus ("inaugurated site"), the most common form of which was the templum.

Recent research in religious history now demonstrates templum angelicum was a liturgical form for a church dedicated to St. Michael.

This alignment was fundamental to the drawing of a templum (sacred space) for the practice of augury.

"Sub Templum" is an album by British doom metal band Moss.

All Roman Senate meetings about foreign war were held in the Templum Bellonae.

The Rostra vetera was a permanent tribunal eventually made into a war monument but still within the comitium templum.

Varro preserves an example, albeit textually vexed, of a formula for founding a templum.

The Roman architect Vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to the sacred precinct, and not to the building.

The name is recorded in the 12th century as Novum Templum, meaning 'New Temple'.

The perimeter procession and sacrifice suggest the entire camp as a divine templum; all within are purified and protected.

The simplest example of a Greek temple is the templum in antis, a small rectangular structure sheltering the cult statue.

The term may also refer to the ritual establishing of the augural templum and the tracing of the wall of a new city.

Compare aedes, fanum, and templum.

Additionally, the temple was laid out in the same manner as the Templum Pacis in Rome.

Templon is a loan word in Greek, from the Latin templum, "temple"; how and why it came to have its present meaning is unclear.

The English word "temple" derives from Latin templum, which was originally not the building itself, but a sacred space surveyed and plotted ritually.

Eclogue VII is entitled Templum in some editions.