Caeculus
Caeculus was a son of Vulcan in Roman mythology . He is the legendary founder of the city of Praeneste (now Palestrina ).
According to the Greek reading, it was not Caeculus, but Praenestes, the founder of Praeneste.
His mother was a shepherdess who was impregnated by a spark that jumped from the hearth into her lap (which is why he was considered the son of Vulcanus). She abandoned the child, but it was found and taken to the mother's brothers. Because of his small, blinking eyes he is called Caeculus ( caecus "blind"), but actually he is called Depidius after the brothers . After having spent a real robber youth among the shepherds, he finally set about founding the city of Praeneste with a group of companions. When he asked the neighbors to settle in his city at the founding ceremony, referring to his ancestry from Vulcanus, they did not believe him. Then he asks his father for a sign, whereupon all of his neighbors are suddenly on fire, which only go out again on Caeculus' orders. With that, everyone is convinced of his divine origins and Praeneste has a bright future ahead of him.
He is considered the progenitor of the Gens Caecilia .
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- Cato Origines 59 Peter
- Virgil Aeneid 7,678-81
- Servius commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida 7,678
- Solinus 2.9, after libri Praenestini
- Festus De verborum significatione sv
literature
- Fritz Graf : Caeculus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 899.
- Fritzi Jurgeit: Caeculus . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, pp. 544-545.
- Georg Wissowa : Caeculus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 843 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Emil Aust : Caeculus 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1244 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solinus and Martianus Capella De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii 6,642 digitized