Di Indigetes - Ancient Sources

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

Read more about this topic:  Di Indigetes

Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or sources:

    In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)