TEMPLE, in antiquity, in general a place sequestered or set apart; from Temenos, called in the Æolic dialect Tempos. In a stricter sense, places allotted for religious purposes; and in a still stricter, for a space or quarter of the heavens marked out by the augur with his lituus; where he carefully observed the motion and singing of the birds, and in what part of this Templum they made their appearance. And hence a place walled round, and destined for the worship of any deity, and consecrated by the augurs, was called Tempulum Augustum; and the act itself inauguration or consecration.