among the Romans, a temple or place consecrated to some deity. The deified men and women among the heathens had likewise their fanum; even the great philosopher Cicero erected one to his daughter Tullia.

Fanum Vacuna, (anc. geog.), a village of the Sabines, situated between Cures and Mandela; where stood the temple of Vacuna, goddess of the idle or unemployed, in an old decayed state; and hence the epithet putre, used by Horace. Now called Vocone, in the Ecclesiastic State.