...lectisternium of the same year, also ordered by the Books, were six pulvinaria, with the following divinities: Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres " — a system of twelve corresponding to the Greek system. What with the identification of old Roman...

...lectisternium of the same year, also ordered by the Books, were six pulvinaria, with the following divinities: Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres " — a system of twelve corresponding to the Greek system. What with the identification of old Roman...

...participation in the forms of religion is also greater. The games, the ceremonies of the seUùtemia, lectisternia, and supplicatio are shared by the body...cult relations. The line between di indigetes and di novensides is no longer drawn, and these twelve deities are given official recognition and receive...

...offerings occurs with increasing frequency. The sacrifice of human beings — Gallus ei Galla, Graecus ei Graeca, Argei — is first performed during this period,...cult relations. The line between di indigetes and di novensides is no longer drawn, and these twelve deities are given official recognition and receive...

...lines. An important passage in Livy (XXII, 10, 9) tells of a lectistcrnium held in 217 BC in honor of Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres. Here we have the recognition of a new order of twelve great gods, di consentes, ranged side by side...

...and Diana, Mercury and Neptune. In 217 BC was held a great lectisternium of the twelve gods, Juppiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus, Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres. Here Greek and Latin gods mingle indiscriminately, but the circle of twelve gods and the grouping in...

...people; these twelve gods were Greek divinities, although all but Apollo were called by Roman names: Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus, Apollo and Diana, Volcanus and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres.1 While the practical character of Roman religion still remained,...

...Hannibal. Repeated as late as reign of Marcus Aurelius. Couches set up in public for pairs of deities: Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres. Not stated whether or how gods were represented. In lectisternium of 179 BC deities may have been symbolized...

...was only in 217 BC that a new lectisternium presented twelve Greek divinities grouped in real couples (Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres). It is significant that this ceremony was to take place for the last time in Rome, and even more significant...

...amalgamated. In thè end there was a consensus of principal divinities (di consente!) formed of six couples: Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus,...Apollo and Diana, Vulcan and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres. Temples were erected, altars dedicated, and places of worship set aside for ali of these divinities,...