Editing Sancus (section)

=== Sancus and Salus ===
The two gods were related in several ways. Their shrines ({{Lang|la|aedes}}) were very close to each other on two adjacent hilltops of the Quirinal, the {{Lang|la|Collis Mucialis}} and {{Lang|la|Salutaris}} respectively.<ref>
[[Varro]] ''[[Lingua Latina]]'' V 53
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Some scholars also claim some inscriptions to Sancus have been found on the {{Lang|la|Collis Salutaris}}.<ref>
Jesse B. Carter in ''Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics'' vol. 13 s.v. ''Salus''
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Moreover, Salus is the first of the series of deities mentioned by Macrobius<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Macrobius]]|title=Saturnalia|at=I 16,8}}
''See also'' [[Saturnalia]].
</ref> as related in their sacrality: {{Lang|la|Salus}}, {{Lang|la|Semonia}}, {{Lang|la|Seia}}, {{Lang|la|Segetia}}, ''[[Tutelina (mythology)|Tutilina]]'', who required the observance of a {{Lang|la|dies feriatus}} of the person who happened to utter their name. These deities were connected to the ancient agrarian cults of the valley of the [[Circus Maximus]] that remain quite mysterious.<ref name=Dumézil-1974-1977/>{{rp|at=vol{{nbs}}I}}<ref>
Chirassi Colombo in ''ANRW'' 1981 p.405
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{{cite book|author=[[Tertullian]]|title=[[De Spectculis]]|at=VIII 3}}
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The statue of Tanaquil placed in the shrine of Sancus was famed for containing remedies in its girdle which people came to collect, named {{Lang|la|praebia}}.<ref>
[[Sextus Pompeius Festus|Festus]] s.v. ''praebia''
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{{cite book|first=R.E.A.|last=Palmer|author-link=Robert E. A. Palmer|year=1994|article=Locket gold, lizard green|editor-first=J.F.|editor-last=Hall|title=Etruscan Influences on the Civilizations of Italy|pages=16, 17 ff}}
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As numerous statues of boys wear the apotropaic golden {{Lang|la|bulla}}, 'bubble' or 'locket', which contained remedies against envy, or the ''evil eye'', [[Robert E. A. Palmer|Palmer]] (1994)<ref name=Palmer-1994/> remarked a connection between these and the {{Lang|la|praebia}} of the statue of Tanaquil in the {{Lang|la|sacellum}} of Sancus.<ref name=Palmer-1994/>{{rp|pages=17 ff}}

[[Georg Wissowa|Wissowa]],<ref name=Wissowa-1912/> [[Eduard Norden|Norden]],<ref name=Norden-1939/> and [[Kurt Latte|Latte]]<ref name=Latte-1960/> write of a deity named {{Lang|la|Salus Semonia}}<ref name=Wissowa-1912>
{{cite book|first=G.|last=Wissowa|author-link=Georg Wissowa|title=Roschers Lexicon|article=Sancus|series=Religion und Kultus der Roemer|place=Munich, DE|year=1912|pages=139 ff}}
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{{cite book|first=K.|last=Latte|author-link=Kurt Latte|year=1960|title=Romanisches Religionsgechichte|place=Munich, DE|pages=49–51}}
</ref><ref name=Norden-1939/>{{rp|pages=205 ff}} who is though attested only in one inscription of year 1{{nbs}}CE mentioning a {{Lang|la|Salus Semonia}} in its last line (line seventeen). There is consensus among scholars that this line is a later addition and cannot be dated with certainty.<ref name=Palmer-1990>
{{cite book|first=R.E.A.|last=Palmer|author-link=Robert E. A. Palmer|year=1990|title=Studies of the northern Campus Martius in ancient Rome|quote=''Salus Semonia posuit populi Victoria''}}
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In other inscriptions Salus is never connected to Semonia.{{efn|
''Ara Salutus'' from a slab of an altar from Praeneste; ''Salutes pocolom'' on a pitcher from Horta; ''Salus Ma[gn]a'' on a ''cippus'' from Bagnacavallo; ''Salus'' on a ''cippus'' from the sacred grove of Pisaurum; ''Salus Publica'' from [[Ferentinum]].
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