Corniger

"Horn-bearing, horned." A surname of Bacchus,1 and of Jupiter Ammon, who was worshiped in the form of a ram. Similarly, Bicorniger ("Two-horned") was also an epithet of Bacchus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Ovid. Fasti iii, 481.
  2. Ovid. Heroides xiii, 33.

Source

  • Peck, Harry Thurston. (1898). Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York: Harper and Brothers.