NEPTUNE (Lat. NEPTUNUS)

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NEPTUNE (Lat. NEPTUNUS) , an Italian god, of unknown origin and meaning, paired with Salacia, possibly the goddess of the

salt

water. At an early date (J99 B.C.) he was identified with the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Poseidon (q.v.), when the Sibylline books ordered a

lectisternium

LECTISTERNIUM (from Lat. lectum sternere, "to spread a couch "; urpwyvai in Dion. Halic. xii. 9)

in his honour (Livy v. 13). His festival, Neptunalia, at which tents were made from the branches of trees, was celebrated on the 23rd of July, and his temple, containing a famous marine

group

GROUP

Scopas

SCOPAS

, stood near the

Circus

CIRCUS (Lat. circus, Gr. Kipeos or Kptxot, a
ring
- RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f
or' circle; probably " circus " and "
ring
- RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f
" are of the same origin)

Flaminius. In earlier times it was the god Fortunus who was thanked for naval victories; but Sextus Pompeius called himself son of Neptune, and

Agrippa

dedicated to Neptune a temple (Basilica Neptuni) in the Campus Martins in honour of the naval victory of

Actium

ACTIUM (mod. Punta)

.

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