Loucetios
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right|300px|thumb|An altar to Mars Loucetios at The Rhine in the Musée archéologique (Strasbourg)|Musée archéologique de Strasbourg. In Gallo-Roman religion, Loucetios (Latinized as Leucetius) was a Gallic god known from the Rhine-Moselle region, where he was identified with the Roman Mars. Scholars have interpreted his name to mean ‘lightning’. Mars Loucetius was worshipped alongside the goddess Nemetona.
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- Name and etymology
- Inscriptions and shrines
- References
- Bibliography
right|300px|thumb|An altar to Mars Loucetios at The Rhine in the Musée archéologique (Strasbourg)|Musée archéologique de Strasbourg. In Gallo-Roman religion, Loucetios (Latinized as Leucetius) was a Gallic god known from the Rhine-Moselle region, where he was identified with the Roman Mars. Scholars have interpreted his name to mean ‘lightning’. Mars Loucetius was worshipped alongside the goddess Nemetona.
==Name and etymology== The name Loucetios derives from a Celtic stem *lowk-et-, meaning 'flash of lightning, thunderbolt' (cf. Old Irich lóchet), itself from the root *lowk- ('bright, light'; cf. Middle Irish luach 'glowing light', Middle Welsh llug 'eyesight, perception'). It is the source of the place name Luzech, attested as Luzechium in 1326 CE.