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Dusios

Index Dusios

In the Gaulish language, Dusios was a divine being among the continental Celts who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion. [1]

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  1. 122 relations: Adjective, Adverb, Allegory, Amiens, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek religion, Angel, Anthropomorphism, Augustine of Hippo, Breton language, Celtiberians, Celts, Cetus (mythology), Changeling, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Charles Godfrey Leland, Chivalric romance, Christian demonology, Christianity and paganism, Church Fathers, Continental Celtic languages, Conversion to Christianity, Cult (religious practice), Dative case, David Sedley, De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae, Devil, Diminutive, Early Middle Ages, Egidio Forcellini, Elaine Fantham, Elf, Epithet, Erinyes, Etymologiae, Etymology, Fairy, Faun, Faunus, Ficus, Fig, Fig wasp, Francia, Gaulish, Gauls, Geniscus, Genius (mythology), Gerund, Gervase of Tilbury, Giants (Greek mythology), ... Expand index (72 more) »

  2. Demons in Christianity
  3. European demons
  4. Gallo-Roman religion
  5. Incubi
  6. Pan (god)

Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Adverb

An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.

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Allegory

As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.

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Amiens

Amiens (English: or;; Anmien, Anmiens or Anmyin) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ancient Greek religion

Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices.

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Angel

In Abrahamic religious traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and some sects of other belief-systems like Hinduism and Buddhism, an angel is a heavenly supernatural or spiritual being.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France.

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Celtiberians

The Celtiberians were a group of Celts and Celticized peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Cetus (mythology)

In Ancient Greek ketos (κῆτος, plural kete/ketea, κήτη/κήτεα), Latinized as cetus (pl. ceti or cete.

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Changeling

A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore.

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Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (December 18, 1610 in Amiens – October 23, 1688 in Paris, aged 77), also known simply as Charles Dufresne, was a distinguished French philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium.

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Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Chivalric romance

As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.

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Christian demonology

Christian demonology is the study of demons from a Christian point of view. Dusios and Christian demonology are demons in Christianity.

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Christianity and paganism

Paganism is commonly used to refer to various religions that existed during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, such as the Greco-Roman religions of the Roman Empire, including the Roman imperial cult, the various mystery religions, religious philosophies such as Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, and more localized ethnic religions practiced both inside and outside the empire.

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Church Fathers

The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foundations of Christianity.

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Continental Celtic languages

The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany.

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Conversion to Christianity

Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities and temples, shrines, or churches.

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Dative case

In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

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David Sedley

David Neil Sedley FBA (born 30 May 1947) is a British philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae

The De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae ("On the divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga") is an extended mid ninth-century treatise written by Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims (d. 882), which survives in a single manuscript, Paris BnF.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Diminutive

A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.

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Egidio Forcellini

Egidio Forcellini (26 August 16885 April 1768) was an Italian philologist.

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Elaine Fantham

Elaine Fantham (née Crosthwaite, 25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and in the social history of Roman women.

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Elf

An elf (elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore.

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Epithet

An epithet, also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.

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Erinyes

The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Etymologiae

Etymologiae (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the Origines ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the influential Christian bishop Isidore of Seville towards the end of his life.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Fairy

A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.

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Faun

The faun (phaûnos) is a half-human and half-goat mythological creature appearing in Greek and Roman mythology.

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Faunus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. Dusios and Faunus are pan (god).

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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Fig

The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, together with western and southern Asia.

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Fig wasp

Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside figs.

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Francia

The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

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Gaulish

Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.

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Gauls

The Gauls (Galli; Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD).

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Geniscus

Geniscus is a deity who appears in a sermon of Saint Eligius along with Neptune, Orcus, Minerva and Diana. Dusios and Geniscus are Gallo-Roman religion and Gaulish gods.

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Genius (mythology)

In Roman religion, the genius (genii) is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing.

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Gerund

In linguistics, a gerund (abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun.

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Gervase of Tilbury

Gervase of Tilbury (Gervasius Tilberiensis; 1150–1220) was an English canon lawyer, statesman and cleric.

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Giants (Greek mythology)

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size.

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Goblin

A goblin is a small, grotesque, monstrous creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Greek water deities

The ancient Greeks had numerous water deities.

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H. J. Rose

Herbert Jennings Rose FBA (5 May 1883, in Orillia – 31 July 1961, in St Andrews) was a Canadian-born British classical scholar, best remembered as the author of A Handbook of Greek Mythology, originally published in 1928, which became for many years the standard student reference book on the subject, reaching a sixth edition by 1958.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Hemorrhoid

Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal.

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Hero

A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.

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Hincmar

Hincmar (Hincmarus; 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hooded Spirits

The Hooded Spirits or Genii Cucullati are figures found in religious sculpture across the Romano-Celtic region from Britain to Pannonia, depicted as "cloaked scurrying figures carved in an almost abstract manner". Dusios and Hooded Spirits are Fertility gods and Gaulish gods.

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Incubus

An incubus (incubi) is a demon in human form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. Dusios and incubus are demons in Christianity and incubi.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Interpretatio graeca

Greek translation, or "interpretation by means of Greek ", refers to the tendency of the ancient Greeks to identify foreign deities with their own gods. Dusios and Interpretatio graeca are Gallo-Roman religion.

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Inuus

In ancient Roman religion, Inuus was a god, or aspect of a god, who embodied sexual intercourse. Dusios and Inuus are Fertility gods.

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Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis; 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville.

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Juno (mythology)

Juno (Latin Iūnō) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state.

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Ken Dowden

Ken Dowden (born 1950) is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Birmingham.

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Lamia

Lamia (Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon". Dusios and Lamia are European demons.

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Late antiquity

Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latinisation of names

Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.

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Lemures

The were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead in Roman religion, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of (from Latin, 'mask') as disturbing or frightening.

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Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Logos

Logos (lit) is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology and rhetoric, as well as religion (notably Christianity); among its connotations is that of a rational form of discourse that relies on inductive and deductive reasoning.

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Lothair II

Lothair II (835 – 8 August 869) was the king of Lotharingia from 855 until his death in 869.

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Lympha

The Lympha (plural Lymphae) is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water.

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Maenad

In Greek mythology, maenads (μαινάδες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue.

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Magic and religion

Belief in magic exists in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religious hierarchy including formal clergy or more informal systems.

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Magonia

Magonia is the name of the cloud realm whence felonious aerial sailors were said to have come, according to commonly-held beliefs denounced in the polemical treatise by Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon in 815, where he argues against weather magic.

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Manes

In ancient Roman religion, the Manes or Di Manes are chthonic deities sometimes thought to represent souls of deceased loved ones.

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Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville

Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (5 December 1827 – 26 February 1910) was a French historian, philologist and Celtic scholar.

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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

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Matter of Britain

The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.

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Monotheism

Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.

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Nemeton

A nemeton (plural: nemeta) was a sacred space of ancient Celtic religion.

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Nominalization

In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Numen

Numen (plural numina) is a Latin term for "divinity", "divine presence", or "divine will".

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Nymph

A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Irish

Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.

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Oxford Latin Dictionary

The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon of Classical Latin, compiled from sources written before AD 200.

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Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. Dusios and Pan (god) are Fertility gods.

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Papias (lexicographer)

Papias (fl. 1040s–1060s) was a Latin lexicographer from Italy.

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Phallus

A phallus (phalli or phalluses) is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.

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Picardy

Picardy (Picard and Picardie) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

The Realencyclopädie (German for "Practical Encyclopedia"; RE) is a series of German encyclopedias on Greco-Roman topics and scholarship.

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Recension

Recension is the practice of editing or revising a text based on critical analysis.

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Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule.

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Richard Payne Knight

Richard Payne Knight (11 February 1751 – 23 April 1824) of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, and of 5 Soho Square,History of Parliament biography London, England, was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

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Richarius

Richarius (– April 26, 645) was a Frankish hermit, monk, and the founder of two monasteries.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman Gaul

Roman Gaul refers to GaulThe territory of Gaul roughly corresponds to modern-day France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and adjacient parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

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Sacred grove

Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture.

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Satyr

In Greek mythology, a satyr (σάτυρος|sátyros), also known as a silenus or silenos (σειληνός|seilēnós), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.

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Semantic field

In linguistics, a semantic field is a lexical set of words grouped semantically (by meaning) that refers to a specific subject.

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Sermon

A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy.

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Silvanus (mythology)

Silvanus (meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.

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Strix (mythology)

The strix (plural striges or strixes), in the mythology of classical antiquity, was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood.

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Telesphorus (mythology)

In ancient Greek religion, Telesphorus (Greek: Τελεσφόρος Telesphoros) was a minor child-god of healing. Dusios and Telesphorus (mythology) are Gaulish gods.

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The City of God

On the City of God Against the Pagans (De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD.

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Thomas Crofton Croker

Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 – 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825–1828), and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music.

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Thomas of Cantimpré

Thomas of Cantimpré (Latin: Thomas Cantimpratensis or Thomas Cantipratensis) (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 1201 – Louvain, 15 May 1272) was a Flemish Catholic medieval writer, preacher, theologian and a friar belonging to the Dominican Order.

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Thomas Wright (antiquarian)

Thomas Wright (23 April 181023 December 1877) was an English antiquarian and writer.

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Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.

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Walter F. Otto

Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto (22 June 1874, in Hechingen – 23 September 1958, in Tübingen) was a German classical philologist particularly known for his work on the meaning and legacy of Greek religion and mythology, especially as represented in his seminal 1929 work The Homeric Gods.

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Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)

Whitley Stokes, CSI, CIE, FBA (28 February 1830 – 13 April 1909) was an Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar.

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Wild man

The wild man, wild man of the woods, or woodwose/wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.

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See also

Demons in Christianity

European demons

Gallo-Roman religion

Incubi

Pan (god)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusios

Also known as Dusii.

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