Terminus
Roman · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Roman god of boundary markers, embodied in the immovable border-stone.
Domains
- boundaries
- law and order
Powers
- Fixes property boundaries that may never be moved
- Cannot be moved or yield even to Jupiter, fixing every boundary forever
Epithets
- Iuppiter Terminus boundary-god whose stone would not yield even to Jupiter on the CapitolLivy 1.55.3-4 (primary); Ovid, Fasti 2.639-684 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Ovid, Fasti 2.639-684 (primary)