Forculus
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Ad Nationes
Minor Roman god presiding over doors.
I say nothing of the gods Forculus from doors and Cardea from hinges and Limentinus of thresholds, or whatever other doorkeeper deities are adored among you among your neighbors.
De idolatria
A minor Roman deity associated with doors.
For we ought to be certain, in case it escapes any through ignorance of secular literature, that even the gods of doors among the Romans—Cardea, named from hinges, and Forculus from doors, and Limentinus from the threshold, and Janus himself from the door—and surely we know that, although the names be empty and feigned, yet, when they are brought into superstition, they snatch to themselves the de …