Anxurus

Anxurus was an Italian divinity, who was worshipped in a grove near Anxur (modern Terracina) together with the goddess Feronia. He was regarded as a youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno.[1] On coins his name appears as "Axur" or "Anxur".[2][3] There exists in Terracina the ruins of a temple to Jupiter Anxurus.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid 7.799
  2. ↑ Arnold Drakenborch, ad Sil. Ital. 8.392
  3. ↑ Andreas Morell, Thesaurus Morellianus Num. ii. tab. 2
  4. ↑ Kahn, Robert (2001). Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy. City Secrets 2. New York Review Books. p. 293. ISBN 9781892145017. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Anxurus". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 219. 

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