Talk:Terminus (god)

message: Is terminalus a typo for terminalis? In Latin the -al- adjectival suffix is typically 3rd declension (two-termination).
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to quote or link to the description of the Terminalia in Ovid's Fasti?  --Fulminouscherub 21:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo

message: Is the translation correct? I take it to mean, "I yield to none." The translation on the page suggests it's some archaic imperative and a dative of reference or something like that. If this is the case, is there an inscription it was taken from?Hariboa (talk) 13:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation of concedo nulli?

message: It would be worthwhile to include the information from the Fasti. Additionally, a theory has been proposed by Dr. Samuel Husky that Turnus's death in the Aeneid is justifiable in light of the fact that he moved a boundary stone when he lifted and hurled that boulder at Aeneas shortly before his death. According to Roman law, any person who had committed such an offense against the god could be put to death by any citizen. Just a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.15.127.254 (talk • contribs) 00:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fasti

message: A well-written, well-referenced, informative article. Perhaps it could be improved by an image of a bust or statue and (if appropriate) a myth/legend regarding Terminus. ck lostsword|queta!|Suggestions? 22:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Passed GA

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn by nom.  ZXCVBNM (TALK) 23:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 11 June 2021 

message: William Smith regards Terminus as an aspect of Jupiter. He posits that this explains why there was a Terminus stone in the temple and he questions the traditional story of the augury &c.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 00:30, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jupiter 

message: I think the Erasmus image is given too much prominence in the article. The Romans left us oodles of boundary markers, but they aren't humanoid. The Capitoline cult object was probably a sacred stone of some sort (see e.g. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby or Notes on the Eighth Book of the Commentary of Servius on Vergil's Aeneid by Edna Wiegand, or the classical sources they cite like Serv. A. 9.446), not a statue. The only possible Roman source I've that isn't clearly based on the Greek hermae is this coin:
 Actual coins:    
It was minted on order of the son of Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus. At first sight it looks less of a conventional herma than this coin:  But Celestino Cavedoni argues it's an image of Mercury just like the coin's twin, which features the god's face, although I must say I'm not quite 100% convinced by his reasoning and others did think it might represent Terminus. But then again, if there are no other humanoid representations of a Roman Terminus, then doesn't that make the Mercury hypothesis more likely?
As for the origin of Erasmus's Terminus, it came from a gem that an early 16th century Italian antiquarian had identified as being an image of Terminus, but according to John Rowlands it is nowadays thought to represent a herma of Dionysos.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 03:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erasmus image 

message: In English, is it a homophone of the word terminus? ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 11:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation