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".²³ 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
Kahn, Robert (2001). Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy. City Secrets. Vol. 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: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anxurus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 219.

[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. Vol. 2. New York Review Books. p. 293. ISBN 9781892145017. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

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