Redicilus

A Roman divinity, who had a temple near the Porta Capena, and who was believed to have received his name from having induced Hannibal, when he was near the gates of the city, to return (redire) southward.1 A place on the Appian road, near the second mile-stone from the city, was called Campus Rediculi.2

This divinity was probably one of the Lares of the city of Rome, for, in a fragment of Varro,3 he calls himself Tutanus, i.e., the god who keeps safe.

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References

Notes

  1. Festus, p. 282 (ed. Muller).
  2. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xliii, 60.122; Sextus Propertius. Elegies iii, 3, 11.
  3. ap. Nonius, p. 47

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.