god
Jupiter
also: Jove, Iuppiter
Chief of the Roman gods; the myth of his infancy hidden in Crete from his father Saturn is recalled in the cult of the Great Mother.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.25 the almighty father
Jupiter, chief of the gods and wielder of the thunderbolt, named here only within the myth Lucretius rejects.
- On the Nature of Things §6.10 Jupiter
Chief of the Roman gods and wielder of the thunderbolt; Lucretius marshals a battery of questions to show that lightning cannot be his weapon.