Sources
Plan:
Location 1: LTUR II fig. 153
Location 2: contingent on site of Curia Hostilia (location 2)
Facade: See basilica rule documentation
Timeline
- 184 BCE: Cato the Elder makes this building as a censorial monument
- Sullan era: hypothetical reconstruction
- Destroyed in the fire of 52 BCE
Physical evidence
- Built on top of the Curia, next to the Forum
- Digs have discovered extended framework running from north to south in opus incertum, with a column base preserved in the northeast corner.
- This may not be from the original structure but from a hypothetical Sullan reconstruction, however.
Literary sources
- Ascon. Mil. 2.34
- Liv. 39.44.7ff
- Plut. Cato mai. 19.3, Cato min. 5.1