<P> The first version is the largest Etruscan temple recorded, and much larger than other Roman temples for centuries after . However, its size remains heavily disputed by specialists; based on an ancient visitor it has been claimed to have been almost 60 m × 60 m (200 ft × 200 ft), not far short of the largest Greek temples . Whatever its size, its influence on other early Roman temples was significant and long - lasting . Reconstructions usually . people shows how very wide eaves, and a wide colonnade stretching down the sides, though not round the back wall as it would have done in a Greek temple . A crude image on a coin of 78 BC shows only four columns, and a very busy roofline . </P> <P> With two further fires, the third temple only lasted five years, to 80 AD, but the fourth survived until the fall of the empire . Remains of the last temple survived to be pillaged for spolia in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but now only elements of the foundations and podium or base survive; as the subsequent temples apparently reused these, they may partly date to the first building . Much about the various buildings remains uncertain . </P> <P> Much of what is known of the first Temple of Jupiter is from later Roman tradition . Lucius Tarquinius Priscus vowed this temple while battling with the Sabines and, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, began the terracing necessary to support the foundations of the temple . Modern coring on the Capitoline has confirmed the extensive work needed just to create a level building site . According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy, the foundations and most of the superstructure of the temple were completed by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last King of Rome . </P> <P> Livy also records that before the temple's construction shrines to other gods occupied the site . When the augurs carried out the rites seeking permission to remove them, only Terminus and Juventas were believed to have refused . Their shrines were therefore incorporated into the new structure . Because he was the god of boundaries, Terminus's refusal to be moved was interpreted as a favorable omen for the future of the Roman state . A second portent was the appearance of the head of a man to workmen digging the foundations of the temple . This was said by the augurs (including augurs brought especially from Etruria) to mean that Rome was to be the head of a great empire . </P>

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