Editing Ogmios (section)

===Curse tablets===
[[File:Brigantium Ogmios defixione 1882.jpg|thumb|1st-century CE curse tablet, now lost, perhaps invoking Ogmios to silence court witnesses.]]
Two [[curse tablet]]s, both found in [[Bregenz|Brigantium]] (in [[Austria]]), have been linked to Ogmios. The first, discovered in 1865 and now lost, dates to the 1st century CE;{{efn|1={{CIL|3|11882}} = Sánchez Natalías, ''Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West'', no. 520.}} the second, discovered in 1930, dates to the 1st/2nd century CE.{{efn|1=Sánchez Natalías, ''Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West'', no. [https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_publication=Sanchez-2022,%2000521&r_sortierung=Belegstelle 521].}} The former curse invokes a god to silence any witnesses who would speak against the (female) curse-writer's interest in court. The latter curse invokes [[Dis Pater]] and another god to damage a young woman's body in order that she may be made unmarriageable. In 1943, Robert Egger proposed to read both these tablets as invoking the god Ogmios. Egger's reading has largely met with agreement in the scholarly literature, though Hofeneder and Euskirchen have expressed scepticism.<ref name=Hofeneder3/>{{rp|90-91}}<ref name=SánchezNatalias>{{cite book |first=Celia |last=Sánchez Natalias |title=Sylloge of ''Defixiones'' from the Roman West: A comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE |volume=II |location=Oxford |publisher=BAR Publishing |date=2022 }}</ref>{{rp|438-439}}

Egger argued that only gods of the underworld were invoked on curse tablets, and that therefore Ogmios should be interpreted as a chthonic deity.<ref name=Egger>{{cite book |last=Egger |first=Rudolf |orig-date=1943 |chapter=Aus der Unterwelt der Festlandskelten |date=1962 |title=Römische Antike und Frühes Christentum: Ausgewählte Schriften von Rudolf Egger |volume=I |pages=272–311 |publisher=Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten |location=Klagenfurt }}</ref>{{rp|290}} Further to this point, Egger pointed out that Lucian compares Ogmios to [[Iapetus]] and [[Charon]], both figures of the [[Greek underworld]].<ref name=Egger/>{{rp|293}} Egger's association of Ogmios with the underworld has met with some agreement in the literature, but more often with scepticism.<ref name=Hofeneder3/>{{rp|91}} de Vries points out that a god only had to be considered powerful to be invoked in a curse.<ref name=deVries/>{{rp|66}} For example (as Euskirchen points out) a curse tablet invoking [[Nodens]] (a Celtic god of healing) is known from [[Gloucestershire]].<ref name=Euskirchen/>{{rp|122}}{{efn|1={{CIL|7|140}} = Sánchez Natalías, ''Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West'', no. 205}} Euskirchen will also not allow that Lucian's comparison of Ogmios to Iapetus and Charon goes further than their skin colour.<ref name=Euskirchen/>{{rp|122}}