Febris
Febris (), or Dea Febris (), is the Roman goddess of fevers, who embodied, but also protected people from, fever and malaria. Because of this, Febris was a feared goddess whom people wanted the favour of. She does not have a myth of her own nor is she mentioned in a myth. Among her characteristic attributes are "shrewdness" and "honesty", according to Seneca the Younger's Apocolocyntosis.
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- Febris
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- Goddess of fevers
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- Dii averrunci, Di indigetes
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- Febris, print by Virgil Solis, from his Twelve mythological women series
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- Dea Febris
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Name
- Cult
- In literature
- ''Apocolocyntosis''
- Poliziano's ''In Albieram Albitiam puellam formosissimam morientem'' (1473)
- See also
- Notes
- References
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Febris (), or Dea Febris (), is the Roman goddess of fevers, who embodied, but also protected people from, fever and malaria. Because of this, Febris was a feared goddess whom people wanted the favour of. She does not have a myth of her own nor is she mentioned in a myth. Among her characteristic attributes are "shrewdness" and "honesty", according to Seneca the Younger's Apocolocyntosis.
Febris was accompanied by two daughters or sisters of her named Dea Tertiana and Dea Quartana, the goddesses of tertian and quartan fever of malaria because the fever would come back in every three or four days. Theodorus Priscianus mentions Saturn as Tertiana and Quartana's father.