Clitumnus

A surname of Jupiter, after a small river in Umbria whose source received divine homage as Jupiter Clitumnus in ancient times. He had a temple near Spoleto.

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References

Sources

  • Pliny the Younger. Epistulae viii, 8.1, 8.5.
  • Suetonius. Caligula, 43.
  • Vergil. Georgics ii, 146.