Fatuus

An alternative name for Faunus as an oracular forest and field god. His oracle was at Tibur (Tivoli) near the spring Albunea.

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References

Sources

  • Arnobius, v, 18.
  • Justinus, xliii, 1, 8.
  • Lactantius, i, 22, 9.
  • Macrobius. Saturnalia i, 12, 21.
  • Varro. On the Latin Language vi, 55.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vii, 81 ff.