To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Apparently Caelus doesn't amount to much--a learned translation found in a couple of Latin works (in Ennius and in Cicero's treatise on the nature of the gods), probably not something that meant anything to an average Roman...no cult associated with him. Even Ouranos doesn't seem to matter very much to the Greeks--a figure in Hesiod's Theogony but not a god that people gave much attention to.
To: Verginius Rufus
Yeah they named it for the most obscure god they could find.
Why not Quirinus?
23 posted on
04/08/2006 5:56:50 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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