CONSENTI, DÈI

CONSENTI, DÈI. — Although in part it differs from the Greek one, where Poseidon or Hermes is associated with Athena, and is not as important as the Etruscan one (Varro in Arnobius, *Adv. Nat.*, III, p. 40), an assembly of twelve deities, arranged in the following six pairs, was also found in Roman theology: Jupiter and Juno; Neptune and Ceres; Apollo and Diana; Vulcan and Minerva; Mars and Venus; Mercury and Vesta. The *Dii Consentes*, expressly mentioned by Varro (*Antiq. divin.*, 16), appear both in the *lectisternium* after the battle of Trasimene (Livy, XXII, 10), in the circus procession (Dionysius, 7, 72), and in the triumphal procession. At Rome they were displayed to the northwest of the Forum, in the portico restored by Vettius Agorius Praetextatus in A.D. 367 (*CIL*, VI, 102).