god
Jupiter
also: Jove, Iuppiter
King of the Roman gods, also god of sky and weather; invoked as an exclamation (poem 1), as the favorable wind-god (poem 4), and as the oracular Jove (Ammon) of Libya (poem 7).
Reading notes
- Carmina §1 Jupiter
King of the Roman gods, here an exclamation of astonishment.
- Carmina §7 Jove
Here Jupiter in his oracular form as Ammon, whose desert shrine lay in Libya.