Militaris

"Of a soldier, of war, of military service." A surname of Venus, presiding over the debauchery of camps.¹ It also occurs as a surname of Jupiter, under which name he had a temple at Labranda or Labraunda in Caria.²

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Macrobius. Saturnalia iii, 8; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid i, 724; Arnobius. Ad Nationes iv, 7.
Haym, Nicola Francesco. (1719). The British Treasury; Being Cabinet the First of Our Greek and Roman Antiquities of All Sorts. Vol. 2. Ghent University, p. 52.

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