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  The Internet Classics Archive | Marcellus by Plutarch
Fearing lest this accident, if converted into an omen, might discourage his soldiers, he quickly brought his horse round to confront the enemy, and made a gesture of adoration to the sun, as if he had wheeled about not by chance, but for a purpose of devotion.
Then entering the temple of Jupiter Feretrius, he dedicated his gift; the third, and to our memory the last, that ever did so.
Others there are who would have the name to be deduced from the strokes that are given in fight; since even now in battles, when they press upon their enemies, they constantly call out to each other, strike, in Latin feri.
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 Amazon.com: "Jupiter Feretrius": Key Phrase page
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THIS THREE FUNCTIONS 167 spolia quae dux populi Rontani duci iiostium detramu`, says that they are offered uniformly to Jupiter Feretrius, and confines itself to noting the rarity of such an exploit in fact, only three leaders are supposed to have...
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 Temple of Jupiter Feretrius@Everything2.com
The temple, named after "the Thundering Jupiter", served for many centuries as the repository for war trophies.
In 428 B.C. Cornelius Cossus slew Tolumnius the Etruscan, the king of Veii, and brought his spoils to Jupiter Feretrius.
The temple of Jupiter Feretrius stood on the Capitoline hill, and was relatively small and austere compared to its neighbors, the great temples surrounding the area Capitolina.
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 San Leo
San Leo sorge su uno sperone di roccia con le pareti a strapiombo sulla valle del Marecchia.
XV), opera di Francesco di Giorgio Martini, domina la valle dalla sommità della rupe inacessibile; di origini antichissime, la città dà il nome alla provincia del Montefeltro, essendo l'antica Mons Feretrius romana.
Fu capitale d'Italia con Berengario II dal 962 al 964.
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Jupiter the Subduer, divine ardor, and Caesar Jupiter can also be seen at work in the guise of Iuppiter Feretrius (the Subduer of Enemies) whose appearances in Valerius all occur in his chapter on bravery and involve spolia opima,162 the...
But first the main characteristics of Nepos' representation of Atticus need to be outlined.
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  CHURCH FATHERS: De Spectaculis (Tertullian)
This goes also to taint the origin: you cannot surely hold that to be good which has sprung from sin, from shamelessness, from violence, from hatred, from a fratricidal founder, from a son of Mars.
In addition to this, Romulus instituted games in honor of Jupiter Feretrius on the Tarpeian Hill, according to the statement Piso has handed down to us, called both Tarpeian and Capitoline.
After him Numa Pompilius instituted games to Mars and Robigo (for they have also invented a goddess of rust); then Tullus Hostilius; then Ancus Martius; and various others in succession did the like.
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