oedes

Updated: May 11, 2025

But grander than any of these palaces is that of Plautius Lateranus, the egregioe Lateranorum oedes, which became imperial property in the time of Nero, and on whose site stands the basilica of St. John Lateran, the gift of Constantine to the bishop of Rome, one of the most ancient of the Christian churches, in which, for fifteen hundred years, daily services have been performed.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.

He fixed his residence between the Roman and the Sabine city, and erected adjoining to the Regia a temple to Vesta, which was probably only an oedes sacra. It was probably along with these buildings that the Sacra Via came into existence. The Regia became in after times the residence of the Pontifex Maximus.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.