Porticus Octavia

[2] It may have been the earliest use of this architectural order in Rome[citation needed] and is possibly to be identified with remains on the Via S. Nicola ai Cesarini, represented in the Severan Marble Plan (frg.

[3] Velleius Paterculus called it "by far the loveliest" (multo amoenissima) of the porticoes of his time.

It may have replaced or refurbished the portico that he supposedly erected around his temple at the time of its construction.

In 33 BC, Octavian (the future Augustus) recovered the military standards lost by Gabinius to the Illyrians and displayed them at the Porticus Octavia.

Octavian and his stepbrother L. Marcius Philippus then entirely rebuilt it and the temple within to commemorate the conquest of Dalmatia.