Anxurus

An Italian divinity, who was worshiped in a grove near Anxur (Terracina) together with Feronia. He was regarded as a youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno.1 On coins his name appears as Axur or Anxur.2

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References

Notes

  1. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid vii, 799.
  2. Drakenborch, on Silius Italicus, viii, 392; Thesaurus Morellianus ii, tab. 2.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.