Sancus
Sancus was the name of an ancient god who was originally worshiped by the Umbrian - Sabine tribes and was also considered to be the founder of the people. According to traditional tradition, his cult came in 466 BC. During a confrontation with the Sabines to Rome; there, the consul Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis is said to have caused the merger with Dius Fidius , the Roman god of contract loyalty in trade or between peoples, as a - albeit unsuccessful - diplomatic gesture and to create a cult community . Sancus, also equated with Hercules , has been used since the 4th century BC. Addressed cultically (with deviations) as Semo Sancus Sanctus Deus Fidius . The temple dedicated to him was located at the porta Sanqualis on the Quirinal , in place of today's church of San Silvestro al Quirinale .
It is believed that the medieval Ibero-Roman personal name Sancho ( Latin Sanctius ) goes back to a vulgar Latin form of the name ( Sauco, Sanco ) of the name of the gods in Hispania .
literature
- Robert Grosse: Sancus. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 1540 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sancho in Heráldica Valenciana. Instituto de Historia y Heráldica Familiar, in: Levante-EMV , accessed November 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ Joaquín Gorrochategui: Basque Names. In: Ernst Eichler , Gerold Hilty , Heinrich Löffler , Hugo Steger , Ladislav Zgusta : Name research. An international handbook on onomastics , 1st part (= handbooks on linguistics and communication studies , volume 11.1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, pp. 747–756 (here: p. 748 in the Google book search) (English).