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For it was customary to the Romans, when they offered worship to the gods, to turn round; and in this moment of meeting the enemy, he is said to have vowed the best of the arms to Jupiter Feretrius.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Feretrius, as if he had slain some hostile general with his own hand, and to have lictors that always carried laurel, and after the Feriae
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Feretrius on the Capitol, on which the _spolia opima_ were hung after the triumph -- probably in early times a dedication of the booty to the spirit inhabiting the tree.
The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914
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Feretrius, were now preserved in the temple of Mars Ultor.
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Jesse Benedict Carter 1894
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Capitoline he was worshipped as _Feretrius_, "the striker," in his most fearful attribute as the god of the lightning.
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Jesse Benedict Carter 1894
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His oldest cult at Rome was on the Capitoline hill, but at all times quite distinct from that which became so famous afterwards; he was known here as Feretrius, a cult-title of which the meaning is uncertain, [260] and here, so far as we can guess, there must have been an ancient oak regarded either as the dwelling of the numen or as the numen himself, upon which Romulus is said to have hung the _spolia opima_ taken from the king of the Caeninenses; [261] here we may see the earliest trace of the triumphal procession that was to be.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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CHAP.X. Opitna Spolia presented to JupiUr Feretrius.
Roman History: Translated Into English, and Illustrated with Notes, Critical, Historical and ... Livy, William Gordon 1813
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