During the Civil War, he had declared Venus his patron goddess: he vowed to erect a temple for "Venus Victrix" if she granted him the battle of Pharsalia, but he had built it, in 46 BC, to "Venus Genetrix", which epithet combined her aspects as his ancestress, the mother of the Roman people, and the goddess invoked in the philosophical poem "De rerum natura". The new Senate had also put up a statue of Caesar, with an inscription declaring him a demi-god, but he had it effaced, as not the claim he wished to make. Granted the same extension of rights to triumphal dress as Pompey had been given, Caesar took to wearing his triumphal head-wreath "wherever and whenever", excusing this as a cover for his baldness. He may also have publicly worn the red boots and the "toga picta" ("painted", purple toga) usually reserved to a triumphing general for the day of his triumph; a costume also associated with the "rex sacrorum" (the priestly "king of the sacred rites" of Rome's monarchic era, later the "pontifex maximus"), the "Monte Albano" kings, and possibly the statue of "Jupiter Capitolinus".