[3] It was located beside the Temple of Juno Regina in the Porticus Octaviae in the southern Campus Martius before its destruction in the AD 64 Great Fire of Rome.

[4] The Temple of Jupiter Stator was built by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus after his triumph in 146 BC.

The previous idea that an Ionic capital—now in S. Lorenzo Fuori le Mura—has anything to do with the temple has generally been abandoned.

[8] As there were no inscriptions on the temples[9] and evidently representations of a lizard (Ancient Greek: σαύρα, saúra) and a frog (βάτραχος, bátrokhos) among the decorations, the legend arose that the architects were two Spartans named Saurus and Batrachus and that as the decorations in the temple of Jupiter belonged to that of Juno and vice versa, the statues of the deities had been set up in the wrong cellae by the mistake of the workmen.

[11] Each temple was fronted by an altar (ara) and Metellus placed Lysippus's equestrian statues of Alexander the Great's generals before these.