Anxurus

Anxurus was an Italian divinity, who was worshipped in a grove near Anxur (modern Terracina) together with the goddess Feronia. He was regarded as a youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno.[1] On coins his name appears as "Axur" or "Anxur".[2][3] There exists in Terracina the ruins of a temple to Jupiter Anxurus.[4]

"Axur" redirects here. For the opera by Antonio Salieri, see Axur, re d'Ormus.

Notes
  1. Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid 7.799
  2. Arnold Drakenborch, ad Sil. Ital. 8.392
  3. Andreas Morell, Thesaurus Morellianus Num. ii. tab. 2
  4. Kahn, Robert (2001). Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy. City Secrets. 2. New York Review Books. p. 293. ISBN 9781892145017. Retrieved 2016-02-16.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anxurus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 219.

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