god
Iuppiter
Jupiter
Chief of the Roman gods; honored by Romulus with the first temple at Rome, to Jupiter Feretrius on the Capitol.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 1 §7 Jupiter
Chief of the Roman gods; here addressed as the son who fathered Hercules and soon honored with Rome's first temple.
- The History of Rome, Book 1 §24 Diespiter
An archaic name of Jupiter, invoked in the fetial oath as guarantor of the treaty.
- The History of Rome, Book 2 §8 Jupiter
Chief god of the Roman state, worshipped above all on the Capitol.
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §17 Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Jupiter Best and Greatest, chief god of the Roman state, whose temple crowned the Capitol; his shrine was now profaned by Herdonius's band.
- The History of Rome, Book 4 §2 Jupiter Best and Greatest
The supreme Roman god, guardian of the state, whose Capitoline temple housed the chief cult of Rome.
- The History of Rome, Book 5 §23 made equal with the horses of Jupiter
Jupiter Best and Greatest, whose Capitoline temple and white chariot-horses set the measure the dictator was thought to usurp.
- The History of Rome, Book 6 §16 most good, most great
Jupiter Best and Greatest, chief god of the Roman state, whose Capitoline temple Manlius had saved; he calls on him at his arrest.
- The History of Rome, Book 7 §38 the cella of Jupiter
The inner chamber of Jupiter Best and Greatest in the Capitoline temple, where the Carthaginians' gift-crown was placed.
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §5 Jupiter
The supreme god of Rome, sworn by in the fetial rite and honored in the temple where the flute-players feasted.
- The History of Rome, Book 10 §7 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the supreme Roman god, whose array the triumphing general wore.
- The History of Rome, Book 10 §29 Jupiter the Victor
Jupiter Victor, to whom Fabius vowed a temple and the enemy's spoils at Sentinum.
- The History of Rome, Book 21 §22 Jupiter
The supreme Roman god; in Hannibal's dream a youth claims to be sent by Jupiter as his guide into Italy.
- The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Jupiter
The supreme Roman god, Jupiter Best and Greatest, whose temple crowned the Capitol.
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §21 pluck down from the temple of Olympian Jupiter the spoils of the Gauls and Illyrians
The chief god of the Roman and Greek pantheon (Zeus), in whose Syracusan temple hung the spoils of Gauls and Illyrians given by Rome to Hiero.
- The History of Rome, Book 25 §2 Jupiter
The supreme god, named in the Marcian prophecy of Cannae and honored at the plebeian games' feast (§2, 12).
- The History of Rome, Book 26 §12 Jupiter
Jupiter, invoked by Fabius as witness of the treaties Hannibal had broken.
- The History of Rome, Book 27 §4 the temple of Jupiter
Jupiter, the chief god of the Roman state; his temples recur among the prodigies.
- The History of Rome, Book 28 §38 Jupiter
Jupiter Best and Greatest, chief god of the Roman state, to whom Scipio offered a hecatomb and the Saguntines a golden crown.
- The History of Rome, Book 29 §38 feast of Jupiter
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, honoured with a feast (epulum Iovis) for the games.
- The History of Rome, Book 30 §39 feast to Jupiter
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, honoured with a feast (epulum Iovis) for the games.
- The History of Rome, Book 31 §5 banquet of Jupiter
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, honoured with a feast (epulum Iovis) at the games.
- The History of Rome, Book 32 §2 Jupiter
Supreme god of the Roman state, several of whose temples were struck.
- The History of Rome, Book 34 §17 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, supreme god of the Roman state.
- The History of Rome, Book 35 §1 Jupiter
The chief god of the Roman state, to whom Scipio vowed games in the battle's crisis.
- The History of Rome, Book 36 §1 Jupiter
The supreme Roman god of the sky and the state, to whom Acilius vowed Great Games for victory.
- The History of Rome, Book 36 §26 temple of Jupiter Best and Greatest
The great Capitoline temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, where Philip's envoys set a golden crown. (Registry: Jupiter.)
- The History of Rome, Book 36 §31 Bellona
The Roman war-goddess, whose temple outside the pomerium received generals seeking a triumph. (Registry placeholder: Jupiter.)
- The History of Rome, Book 38 §2 Jupiter Acraeus
Jupiter 'of the Height,' worshipped at a hill-temple near Argithea; the Roman name for the supreme god Zeus.
- The History of Rome, Book 38 §39 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, whose temple crowned the Capitol.
- The History of Rome, Book 39 §5 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, to whom Fulvius vowed Great Games.
- The History of Rome, Book 40 §40 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, to whom Flaccus vows games and at whose Capitoline temple the votive tablets hang.
- The History of Rome, Book 41 §21 Jupiter
The supreme Roman god, to whom the consuls sacrificed on entering office; defective livers in his victims furnish the book's gravest omens.
- The History of Rome, Book 42 §23 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the supreme Roman god, chief deity of the state, whose great temple stood on the Capitol.
- The History of Rome, Book 43 §8 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the supreme god of the Roman state, whose temple crowned the Capitol.
- The History of Rome, Book 44 §6 temple of Jupiter
Jupiter, the supreme god; here his temple by the sea near Dium.