The Latin word templum originally referred not to the temple building itself, but to a sacred space surveyed and plotted <answer>ritual</answer>ly through augury: "The architecture of the ancient Romans was, from first to last, an art of shaping space around <answer>ritual</answer>." The Roman architect Vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to this sacred precinct, and the more common Latin words aedes, delubrum, or fanum for a temple or shrine as a building. The ruins of temples are among the most visible monuments of ancient Roman culture.
Around what aspect did the Romans a lot space?
ritual