god

Apollinis

also: Apollo

Greek and Roman god of prophecy, music, and healing. Cicero invokes Apollo in connection with the sanctuary at Delos and, in In Verrem 2.1, the Delian temple plundered by Verres on his eastward journey before the praetorship.

Reading notes

Ad Familiares 8.4 §4 a session of the Senate had been held at the temple of Apollo
The temple of Apollo Sosianus stood outside the sacred boundary (pomerium); the Senate met there so that Pompey, who held imperium and could not enter the city without forfeiting it, could attend in person.
Ad Familiares 8.8 §5 in the temple of Apollo
The temple of Apollo (in the Campus Martius, near the Circus Flaminius) was one of the meeting-places where the senate could lawfully convene outside the pomerium; the decree was drafted there on 30 September 51 BC.
On Divination §1.37 the Pythian Apollo
Apollo in his oracular role at Delphi, called 'Pythian' from Pytho, the old name of the site. His responses to Croesus, the Athenians, and others were the most celebrated of Greek oracles.
On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.44 The Pythian Apollo therefore bids us know ourselves
The maxim 'know thyself' (gnothi seauton) was inscribed at the Delphic temple of Apollo, the Pythian oracle. Cicero treats the self-knowledge it commands as the key to discovering the highest good.
On the Nature of the Gods §2.68 Then there is the name of Apollo
Balbus's solar-lunar identifications: Apollo is the Sun, Diana the Moon (also Lucina, invoked in childbirth). The etymologies (sol from solus, luna from lucere) are part of the Stoic naturalizing of the pantheon.
Tusculan Disputations §1.17 not, however, like the Pythian Apollo
Apollo speaking through the Delphic oracle (the Pythia), whose pronouncements were held certain and fixed. Cicero, an Academic skeptic, by contrast offers only what is probable, 'as one ordinary man among many.'