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Dictionary of Roman Religion
Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins

Number of quotes: 36


Book ID: 73 Page: 9

Section: 4B

animal, sacred There were no animals regarded as incarnate gods in the Roman period, except in Egypt.

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There is no evidence that the animals themselves were worshipped.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 12

Section: 2E1

apex (Figs. 6, 32) (pl. apices) A close-fitting conical hat or cap worn by flamines and some other priests out of doors.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Atepomarus The Celtic deity ATEPOMARUS was identified with the Greek god APOLLO in an inscription found at Mauvières, France.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Belenus The Celtic god BELENUS was identified with the Greek god APOLLO.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Cunomaglus The Celtic deity CUNOMAGLUS was identified with the Greek god APOLLO.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Grannus The Celtic god GRANNUS was linked with the Greek god APOLLO. Apollo Grannus was a god of healing who was known at Rome and over much of Europe.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Grannus Mogounus An apparent conflation of the Celtic gods GRANNUS and MOGOUNUS with the Greek god APOLLO. This god is known from an inscription found at Horburg, Germany.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Medicus (“Apollo the Physician”) A Roman god of healing who had temple at Rome.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Moritasgus The Celtic god MORITASGUS was linked with the Greek god APOLLO. A dedication found at a healing shrine and temple at Alesia, France, indicates that he was a god of healing.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Toutiorix The Celtic deity TOUTIORIX was linked with the Greek god APOLLO.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 14

Section: 2B2

Apollo Vindonnus The Celtic god VINDONNUS was linked with the Greek god APOLLO.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 15

Section: 2B2

Apollo Virotutis The Celtic god VIROTUTIS linked with the Greek god APOLLO. Virotutis probably means “benefactor of humanity.” Apollo Virotutis was worshipped in Gaul.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 74

Section: 2E5

Febris A Roman goddess who was the personification of fever. She was greatly feared in Rome and had to be propitiated to prevent or cure fever. It is not certain whether she was a goddess of specific fevers, although some dedications to her indicated she was regarded as a goddess of malaria.

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and she had three temples in Rome: on the Palatine Hill, on the Esquline Hill and at the head of the Quirinal Valley.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 83

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Also known as FORS FORTUNA, this Roman deity was probably originally fertility goddess. She came to be identified with the Greek goddess TYCHE, and so was regarded more generally as a goddess of fate, chance and luck. She was sometimes identified with NORTIA, an Etruscan goddess of fortune.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 83

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Augusta (Figs. 33a, b) An aspect of the goddess FORTUNA, referring to the fortune or

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luck of the emperor. Several altars are known to have been dedicated to this deity.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 84

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Balnearis (“Fortuna of the Baths”) Dedications to this aspect of the Roman goddess Fortuna are often found in military bathhouses in frontier areas. In these bathhouses, dedications to other aspects of the goddess, such as Fortuna Salutaris (“Fortuna of health and well-being”) and FORTUNA REDUX (“Fortuna the home-bringer”), are also found.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 84

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Conservatrix (Fig. 34) (“Fortuna the Preserver” or “Fortuna Who Protects”).

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Book ID: 73 Page: 84

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Equestris An aspect of the Roman goddess FORTUNA whose name means “Fortune of the equites” (equestrian class, knights).

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Book ID: 73 Page: 84

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Huiusce Diei An aspect of the Roman goddess FORTUNA whose name means “Fortune of the Day” (i.e., “the present day” rather than “daytime”).

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Mala (“Fortune with a Beard”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Muliebris (“Fortune of Women”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Obsequens (“Indulgent Fortune”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Primigenia An aspect of the Roman goddess FORTUNA whose name means “Fortune the Firstborn,” probably referring to the cult of Fortuna at Praeneste and so meaning the “Original” or “First” Fortuna. There was a temple dedicated to this goddess on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, and she had a festival on November 13.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Privata This aspect of the Roman goddess Fortuna was “Fortune of the Private Individual,” in contrast to FORTUNA PUBLICA.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Publica (“Luck of the People”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 85

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Redux (Fig. 36) (“Fortune the home-bringer”) The earliest evidence for the worship of this aspect of the Roman goddess FORTUNA is the dedication of an altar to her in Rome by the Senate in gratitude for the safe return of the emperor Augustus to Rome in 19 B.C.

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Book ID: 73 Page: 87

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Respiciens (“Provident Fortune”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 87

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Romana (“the Luck of Rome”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 88

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Virgo (“Fortune the Virgin”)

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Book ID: 73 Page: 88

Section: 2B2

Fortuna Virilis An aspect of the Roman goddess FORTUNA who was worshipped during the VENERALIA.

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Book ID: 73 Page: xv

Section: 2B2

This process is known as interpretatio Romana (literally, “Roman translation”).

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Book ID: 73 Page: xiv

Section: 2B2

There is also evidence that some festivals were in celebration of a deity who had been forgotten, and that another deity was later invented to account for the festival.

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Book ID: 73 Page: xiv

Section: 2B2

Sometimes one god is equated with (identified with) a god of another culture (such as Jupiter with Zeus.)

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Book ID: 73 Page: xiv

Section: 2B2

From earliest times, the Romans appear to have been quite willing to incorporate other peoples’ gods into their religion. In many cases, particularly when a large number of deities were already worshipped by the Romans, an alien god would be identified with an existing Roman god.

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Book ID: 73 Page: xvi

Section: 2B2

The state religion was not static, but developed alongside Roman society, largely by absorbing gods from other cultures, particularly from Etruria and the Greek colonies in Italy.

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The state could intervene to introduce new state cults such as that of Magna Mater in 204 B.C. or to proscribe them (such as Bacchic rites in 186 B.C.). By the end of the republic, state religion was substantially different from that of early Rome because of the absorption of gods from other cultures.

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Book ID: 73 Page: xiii

Section: 2B2

To add to this confusion, the Romans were not averse to inventing a new god to fit an occasion.

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