Victor

"(One) who conquers." A surname of Jupiter as the god who gave the Roman armies victory. A temple to Jupiter Victor was dedicated by Q. Fabius Maximus Gurges during the third Samnite War (295 BCE). It also an epithet of Hercules.1

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References

Notes

  1. Macrobius. Saturnalia viii, 6.

Source

  • Gruterus, J. (1707). Inscriptiones Antiquae Totius Orbis Romani, 23, 8 sq. Livy. The History of Rome x, 29.