god
Aius Locutius
Aius the Speaker
also: Aio Loquenti, Aius the Speaker
The divine 'Announcing Speaker', personification of the disembodied voice that warned (before the Gallic sack) that Rome's walls be repaired; an altar was later consecrated to him near the Via Nova (De Divinatione 1.101).
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.101 an altar to Aius the Speaker
When a disembodied voice warned (before the Gallic sack of 390 BC) that Rome's walls be repaired, the unheeded warning was later expiated by an altar to 'Aius Locutius', the Announcing Speaker.