god
Tellus
Earth
also: Tellus, terra, the earth
The earth deified, identified by the Stoics with Ceres (from gerere, to bear). Cotta uses her in his reductio that if Ceres is a goddess then the earth, sea, rivers, and springs must all be gods too.
Mentioned in 59 works (170 mentions)
Aratea (Translation of Aratus' Phaenomena)
On Invention
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV
For Aulus Cluentius
On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech
Against Catiline, Third Speech
For Publius Sulla
Ad Atticum 1.13
Ad Atticum 1.18
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1
On His Consulship
For Lucius Flaccus
On His House
On the Responses of the Haruspices
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus
For Marcus Caelius
On the Orator
Ad Atticum 4.18
Ad Familiares 1.9
Ad Familiares 7.9
Ad Familiares 7.16
Ad Familiares 15.9
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.9
On the Commonwealth
The Subdivisions of Oratory
For Gaius Rabirius Postumus
On the Laws
For Titus Annius Milo
Ad Atticum 8.2
Ad Atticum 9.9
Ad Familiares 2.16
Ad Atticum 11.1
Ad Familiares 7.26
Orator: To Marcus Brutus
Academica
Ad Atticum 13.25
Ad Familiares 9.12
On the Ends of Good and Evil
On the Nature of the Gods
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