Febris
Febris is a pre-Christian urban Roman deity. It is named after the disease symptom febris - " fever ", the name of which goes back to fervebris - "heated".
The goddess Febris belongs to the apotropaic (turning away) deities (lat. Dii averrunci ) who have power over a certain evil: to impose it or to free it. In Rome, between whose hills there were extensive swamps with malaria pathogens in the early days , three temples were dedicated to Febris in pre-Christian times , one on the Palatine Hill , one on the Esquiline and one on the Vicus longus between Subura and Quirinal . Nothing is known about the iconography .
Augustine mentions Febris three times in his polemic against the Greco-Roman world of gods in De civitate Dei 2:14 ; 3, 12.25.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jacob Grimm , Elard Hugo Meyer : Deutsche Mythologie . Fourth edition, III. Volume, Berlin 1878, p. 337 . There is no verbal relationship with februa - "Atonement, cleaning festival".
- ^ Göttingische learned advertisements , Volume 2, 1815, p. 1244