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ancient Roman religion,
Stata Mater ("Mother who
stops or stabilizes") was a
compital goddess who
protected against fires. She had an
image (simulacrum) in the...
- as a virgin, was
honored as Mater. A
goddess known as
Stata Mater was a
compital deity credited with
preventing fires in the city. From the
middle Imperial...
- ("Compitales
Lares ornari bis anno
instituit vernis floribus et aestivis"). "
Compital".
Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.).
Oxford University Press. (Subscription...
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offer seems to have been
entirely voluntary.
Hardly any of the
reformed Compital shrines show
evidence of cult to the emperor's genius.
Augustus acted with...
- Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.42, 1.46, 1.47. Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.49 The
Compital shrines of the
Lares of the vici (s.vicus) or
political wards were sited...
- holy and great"), Har. Resp. 32; "it may have been
nothing more than a
Compital shrine,"
observes Steven H. Rutledge,"The
Roman Destruction of
Sacred Sites...
