Many of my readers have no doubt seen the anecdote of Voltaire's building a church, and causing to be engraved on the front thereof, the vain record, "Voltaire erexit hoc Templum Deo.
The Templum Maximum indeed, late and corrupt as is its style, is not without a certain grandeur of internal effect, and it contains more than one object which calls up historic memories.
Those who see Cividale before Aquileia may be reminded of the baptistery within the Templum Maximum.
It was the duty of the augur, before the auspices properly so called (those from the sky and from birds) were taken, to mark out with his staff the templum or consecrated space within which his observations were intended to be made.
After prayer and sacrifice, he marked out the templum both in the sky and on the ground and dedicated it.
Tarrant points out to me the reference to Virgil G III 13-16 'et uiridi in campo templum de marmore ponam .
And fro the chirche of the sepulcre, toward the est, at 160 paas, isTemplum Domini.
And in this Templum Domini weren somtyme chanouns reguleres: and thei hadden an abbot, to whom thei weren obedient.
Non impar Paulus huic, doctor gentium, Electionis templum sacratissimum, In morte compar, in corona particeps, Ambo lucernae et decus ecclesiae In orbe claro coruscant vibramine.
And in another place, speaking of the Temple of the Lord, he says, Ab Austro vero domum habet Regiam, quae vulgari appellatione Templum Salomonis dicitur.
Templum Dominicum in tanta veneratione habent Saraceni, ut nullus eorum ipsum audeat aliquibus sordibus maculare; sed a remotis et longinquis regionibus, a temporibus Salomonis usque ad tempora praesentia, veniunt adorare.
We read on many old charters and deeds, "Datum apud vetus Templum Londoniae.
Francesca Romana in the Forum the ruins of the Templum Urbis, the temple of Venus and Rome, with its twin niches for the gods, one turned towards the convent the other looking outwards towards the Colosseum.
From that year they were hung "in muro post templumdivi ad Minervam," that is, behind the modern church of S.
Domitian must have restored the building, because the rear wall of the temple, the murus post templum divi Augusti ad Minervam, is mentioned in contemporary documents as the place on which state notices were posted.
The Virgin Mary was worshipped in the Templum divi Augusti, in the place of the deified founder of the empire; and also in the Basilica Julia, the northern vestibule of which was transformed into the church of S.
Once the Capitol was struck, next the family tomb on the Quirinal, which he had officially styled Templum Flaviæ Gentis; and another time the imperial palace and even his own bedroom.
From the palace at the northeast corner of the Palatine, he crossed the roof of the templum divi Augusti, then the fastigium basilicæ Juliæ, and lastly the Temple of Saturn close to the Capitolium.
I have mentioned this bridge because the words of Suetonius, supra templum divi Augusti ponte transmisso, gave me the first clew towards the identification of the splendid ruins which tower just behind the church of S.
The tomb of the Flavian emperors, Templum Flaviæ Gentis.
Jesus answered, and said eis: Solvite templum hoc, et to them: Destroy this temple, in tribus diebus excitabo and in three days I will raise illud.
The Jews then said: Six Quadraginta et sex annis and forty years was this aedificatum est templum hoc, temple in building, and wilt et tu in tribus diebus thou raise it up in three excitabis illud?
Were the vestibule (pronaos) repeated at the other end of the building, it would be called an opisthodomos, and the whole building would be a double templum in antis.
The Greek and Latin libraries stood to the right and left of the small court between the Basilica Ulpia and the Templum Divi Trajani, the centre of which was marked by the existing Column.
After a restoration by Caracalla the building came to be called Templum Sacræ Urbis.
Templum Tanfanae); but a consecrated grove, or any other sacred place, was called templum by the Romans.
The poets regarded the Virgin as the "Templum Trinitatis"; "totius Trinitatis nobile Triclinium.
She was the "Templum Trinitatis," the Church itself, with its triple aisle.
Templum Domini[278]; because the first Temple to the honour of God had been erected by Solomon on that spot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "templum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
