Anxurus
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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
- ↑ Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid 7.799
- ↑ Arnold Drakenborch, ad Sil. Ital. 8.392
- ↑ Andreas Morell, Thesaurus Morellianus Num. ii. tab. 2
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