god
Mater Idaea
also: Mother of Ida
The Great Mother of the Gods (Cybele), so called from Mount Ida in Phrygia; her cult was officially received at Rome from Pessinus in 204 BC during the Hannibalic War. Cicero names her sanctuary among the holy places Verres did not spare (In Verrem 2.5).
Reading notes
- Cato the Elder, On Old Age §45 the dining-clubs were in fact established in my quaestorship, when the Idaean rites of the Great Mother were brought to Rome
The cult of Cybele, the Magna Mater, was imported from Pessinus in 204 BC during the Hannibalic War; the sodalitates (dining societies) of her games date from then. Cato was quaestor that year.