Talk:Inuus

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agricultural?[edit]

According to my secondary sources, there are only a couple of references to Inuus in ancient literature, and none would justify considering Inuus a god of agriculture. (My sources do not.) Since there is no page citation from the OCD, I can't tell whether this assertion is actually sourced, or just wandered in from some fanciful generalized handbook, as is often the case for minor gods. Here is the deleted entry on this god:

In Roman mythology, Inuus was an ancient protector of livestock, one of the di indigetes. He was probably a god of fertility or sexual intercourse, as his name was thought by some to be connected with the word inire, "to copulate". Livy named him as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia. He was also sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus.

And here was the original source cited, which is perfectly good and valid, but which I didn't have access to for writing the current form of the article:

Hammond, N.G.L. & Scullard, H.H. (Eds.) (1970). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (p. 432). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869117-3.

Sorry, don't like to cut the work of others, but it didn't match what I was finding everywhere else. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, the agricultural ref comes from a Church Father. Will redress the error. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:08, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]