Mamers

The Oscan name of the god Mars.1 Varro,2 on the other hand, calls Mamers the Sabine name of the god. The Romans worshiped Mamers as a rustic divinity, and reckoned him among the country Lares.3

The ancients derived the name of the Mamertines in Messana from the god Mamers.

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References

Notes

  1. Paulus Diaconus, p. 131 (ed. Müller).
  2. On the Latin Language v, 73; comp. Plutarch. Numa, 21.
  3. Cato. De Re Rustica, 83, 141.

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.