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- In ancient Roman religion, Sancus (also known as Sangus or Semo Sancus) was a god of trust (fides), honesty, and oaths. His cult, one of the most ancient...
- race received its name from Sabus, the son of Sancus, a divinity of that country, and that this Sancus was by some called Jupiter Fidius. Dionysius of...
- hint at her belonging to the category of the Semones (gods such as Semo Sancus Dius Fidius). The two gods had temples in Rome on the Collis Salutaris and...
- However, the autonomy of Semo Sancus from Jupiter and the fact that Dius Fidius is an alternate theonym designating Semo Sancus (and not Jupiter) is shown...
- Sancus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. The name is considered a junior synonym of the monotypic genus Psolos Staudinger, 1889 non Semper...
- represent sacred sowers. (Cf. Semo Sancus, a god of good faith.) Semones are minor tutelary deities, in particular Sancus, Priapus, Faunus, all Vertumni,...
- name "Sancus" is currently accepted by the World Spider Catalog, but it was already in use for a genus of skippers when this genus was named. Sancus (skipper)...
- possible male counterpart is Sabine god Semo Sancus, whose traits merged with Dius Fidius's. Semonia and Sancus appear together with other agricultural/crop...
- as deriving from condere (to hide or store) as a verbal noun similar to Sancus and J****: the god of stored grains. A direct identification of Consus with...
- for Jupiter, and sometimes a separate entity also known in Rome as Semo Sancus Dius Fidius. Wissowa argued that while Jupiter is the god of the Fides Publica...