Latialis

Or Latiaris, a surname of Jupiter as the protecting divinity of Latium. The Latin towns and Rome celebrated to him every year the feriae Latinae, on the Alban mount, which were proclaimed and conducted by one of the Roman consuls. Cp. Latinus.

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References

Sources

  • Dionysius, iv, 49.
  • Livy. The History of Rome xxi. 63, xxii, 1.
  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid xii, 135.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Suetonius. Caligula, 22.

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