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Anxurus was an Italian divinity, who was worshipped in a grove near Anxur (modern Terracina) together with the goddess Feronia. He was regarded as a youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno. On coins his name appears as "Axur" or "Anxur". There exists in Terracina the ruins of a temple to Jupiter Anxurus.

Notes

  1. Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid 7.799
  2. Arnold Drakenborch, ad Sil. Ital. 8.392
  3. Andreas Morell, Thesaurus Morellianus Num. ii. tab. 2
  4. Kahn, Robert (2001). Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy. City Secrets. Vol. 2. New York Review Books. p. 293. ISBN 9781892145017. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSchmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anxurus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 219.


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