CONSENTI, DEI

CONSENTI, DEI. — Although differing in part from the Greek one, in which Poseidon or Hermes is associated with Athena, and less important than the Etruscan one (Varro in Arnobius, Adv. Nat., III, p. 40), a council of twelve divinities, 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 d. c., expressly mentioned by Varro (Antiq. divin., 16), appear both in the lectisternium after the battle of Lake Trasimene (Livy, XXII, 10), and in the circus procession (Dionysius, 7, 72) and the triumphal procession. In Rome they were displayed to the north-west of the Forum, in the portico restored by Vettius Agorius Praetextatus in A.D. 367 (CIL, VI, 102).