The first temple to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Gurges_(consul_292_BC)" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)">Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges</a> during the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Samnite_War" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Third Samnite War">Third Samnite War</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_19#cite_note-1" id="mwFA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSabine_G._Oswalt1969">Sabine G. Oswalt (1969). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CdQnAAAAYAAJ" id="mwB1Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB1c">Concise Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology</i></a>. Collins. p.<span id="mwB1g" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>296. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB1k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB1o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780695861094" id="mwB1s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780695861094"><bdi id="mwB1w">9780695861094</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwB10" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Concise+Encyclopedia+of+Greek+and+Roman+Mythology&amp;rft.pages=296&amp;rft.pub=Collins&amp;rft.date=1969&amp;rft.isbn=9780695861094&amp;rft.au=Sabine+G.+Oswalt&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCdQnAAAAYAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+19"></span></span>