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NEPTUNE (Lat. NEPTUNUS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 385 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPTUNE (
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Lat. NEPTUNUS)
  , an
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Italian
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god, of unknown origin and meaning, paired with Salacia, possibly the goddess of the salt
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water . At an early date (J99 B.C.) he was identified with the Greek
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Poseidon (q.v.), when the Sibylline books ordered a lectisternium in his honour (Livy v . 13) . His festival, Neptunalia, at which tents were made from the branches of trees, was celebrated on the 23rd of
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July, and his temple, containing a famous marine
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group by
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Scopas, stood near the Circus Flaminius . In earlier times it was the god Fortunus who was thanked for
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naval victories; but Sextus Pompeius called himself son of Neptune, and Agrippa dedicated to Neptune a temple (
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Basilica Neptuni) in the Campus Martins in honour of the naval victory of Actium .

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