Volturnus

This article is about the Roman god. For the ancient river see today's Volturno .

Volturnus was a god of flowing waters in the Roman religion .

Presumably it originated from a Samnite cult. Other sources equate it with the Tiber .

His festival, the Volturnalia , was celebrated on August 27th. He had his own flamen as a priest (flamen Volturnalis) .

swell

• Varro , De origine linguae Latinae 7, 45
• Arnobius , Disputationum adversus gentes 3, 29

literature

• Georg Wissowa : Volturnus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 6, Leipzig 1937, column 370 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Wissowa : Religion and cult of the Romans. Munich 1902, p. 22