30 pagina XXIV De Deis (On the Gods) IUPPITER et

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De Deis (On the Gods)
VICTORIA dea Romana alata est.
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Dea est victoriarum
terra marique.
Templum Victoriae
Romae in Palatino est.
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IUPPITER et IUNO rex et regina deorum sunt.
Rixae reginae cum marito semper sunt.
VULCANUS filius eorum est.
Vulcanus deus claudus est,
sed faber optimus.
Relief of Victoria standing on a globe and holding a victor’s
palm branch. Poseidon, god of the sea (bottom left), is holding
an anchor and reclines on a jar from which water pours out.
Mars, god of war (bottom right), reclines on his armour.
(Corbridge)
(Image courtesy of
This image represents Roman military Corbridge Museum,
prowess both at sea and on land.
English Heritage)
Patronus fabrorum et
sculptorum est.
Officina Vulcani in monte
Aetna in Sicilia est.
Fragment of a vessel
with the image of a
blacksmith, Corbridge
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Image of a blacksmith,
possibly the god Vulcan,
from Corbridge
(Images courtesy of Corbridge
Museum, Corbridge Roman
Town, English Heritage)
APOLLO et DIANA gemini sunt.
Mater eorum Latona est,
pater Iuppiter.
An altar dedicated
‘to the Victory of the
Emperor by the First
Cohort of the Baetasii’,
an auxiliary unit stationed at the Roman
port of Alauna (near
modern Maryport,
England).
Apollo deus musicae et
poetarum est.
Deus cithara canit. Sagittarius
optimus quoque est.
Diana dea silvarum est.
(Images courtesy of
The Senhouse Museum
at Maryport, England)
Dea sagittis armata est.
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Musae (The Muses)
Apollo quoque dux Musarum est.
MUSAE patronae artium sunt.
Sunt novem Musae: Clio Musa historiae
est, Urania Musa astrologiae; Thalia
Musa comoediae, Melpomene Musa
tragoediae, Terpsichore choreae. Euterpe
patrona tibicinarum est; Calliope, Erato et
Polymnia patronae poetarum sunt.
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The Romans had a penchant for personifying abstract ideas
and virtues and worshipping them as deities. Here are two
typical examples:
A base for a statue
with a dedication to
Discipulina (the
’discipline’) of the
emperors: this was a
way of showing
loyalty to the orders
of the emperor
which had divine
status. (Image
courtesy of
Corbridge Museum,
English Heritage)
A votive pillar dedicated to ‘Eternal
Rome and Fortune
the Homebringer’.
(Image courtesy of
the Senhuose Museum
at Maryport)
alatus = winged
amantes = lovers
amor = love
anima = spirit
appellatus = called
argentum = money
armatus = armed
artium = of the arts
Baccha = Bacchante
bellum = war
bestia = wild animal
cano, 3 = I play music
cerva = deer
chorea = dance
cithara = lyre
claudus = lame
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