Imperator

A surname of Jupiter at Praeneste. After the conquest of that town in 376 BCE, T. Quinctius brought his statue to the capitol at Rome, where it was placed between the chapels of Jupiter and Minerva.1 According to Cicero,2 he was identical with Jupiter Urius (i.e. the sender of favorable wind), of the Greeks.

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References

Notes

  1. Livy. The History of Rome vi, 29.
  2. Cicero. Against Verres iv, 57.

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.