Ancient Sources
Carl Koch compiled a list of Latin authors and inscriptions using the phrase di indigetes or Indiges:
- Livy 1.2.6, on the end of the mortal life of Aeneas on the river Numicus and his identification with or assimilation to Iovem Indigetem in that place.
- Livy 8.9.6, the formula of the devotio of Decius Mus
- CIL I Elog. I from Pompeii: ... apellatusque est Indige(n)s Pater et in deorum numero relatus.
- Vergil, Aeneid 12.794, as an epithet of Aeneas
- Pliny, Natural History 3.56, as an epithet of Sol
- CIL 10.5779 from Sora, Iovi Airsii Dis Indigetibus cum aedicl(a) et base di? et porticu.
- Vergil, Georgics 1.498, Dii patrii Indigetes et Romule Vestaque Mater... .
- Ovid, Metamporphoses 15.862, ...di Indigetes genitorque Quirine..., in the invocation that concludes the poem.
- Silius Italicus, Punica 9.278, Di Indigetes Faunusque satorque Quirinus; also X 435 f.
- Lucan, Pharsalia 1.556, mentions the di indigetes along with the Lares.
- Claudian, Bellum Gildonicum 1.131
- Macrobius, Ad Somnium Scipionis 1.9
- Symmachus, Relatio 3.10
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