Vēdius
Vēdius is a Greco-roman god of War,Medicine and Healing The romans believed vēdius to be one of the first of the gods to be born.[1] Vēdius was portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows, pilum, (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and accompanied by a goat. Romans believed that Vēdius was one of the first gods to be born. He was a god of healing, and became associated with the Greek Asclepius.[2] He was mostly worshipped in Rome and Bovillae in Latium. On the Capitoline Hill and on the Tiber Island, temples were erected in his honour.[3] Vēdius is explained by Festus (p. 379, ed. Miller) to mean " little Jupiter" (comp. Ov. Fast. 3.445); while others interpret it " the destructive Jupiter," and identify him with Pluto. (Gel. 5.12; Macr. 3.9.) But Veiovis and Vedius (Martian. Capell. ii. p. 40), which are only different forms of the same name, seem to designate an Etruscan divinity of a destructive nature, whose fearful lightnings produced deafness in those who were to be struck by them, even before they were actually hurled. (Amm. Marc. 17.10.) His temple at Rome stood between the Capitol and the Tarpeian rock; he was represented as a youthful god armed with arrows, and his festival fell before the nones of March. (Gell. l.c. ; Vitr. 4.8.) Male gods associated with health.
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- ^ "CHAPTER TWO. Greeks, Romans, and Their Many Gods", A Million and One Gods, Harvard University Press, pp. 50–85, 2014-12-31, retrieved 2021-09-15
- ^ Roman Medicine By John Scarborough
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