Neptune
deity figure · 10 works · 14 mentions · 18 anchored passages
Consus · Equestrian Neptune · Hippios · Neptunian · Portunus · master of the trident
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Traditional Roman god of the sea, allegorized by Chrysippus as the air moving through the seas.
that the air which streams through the seas is Neptune;
For in that way it will be allowed to say that Jupiter is always bearded, Apollo always beardless, that Minerva's eyes are grey, Neptune's blue.
for from childhood we have known Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, and the rest of the gods by that face which painters and sculptors chose, and not only by face but by adornment, age, and dress.
Clouds
Poseidon/Neptune, god of horses and the sea, invoked by Phidippides and blamed by Strepsiades for his son's ruinous passion for horses.
Yes, by this Equestrian Neptune.
and the potent master of the trident, the fierce upheaver of earth and briny sea;
Nay, do not by any means mention this Equestrian to me, for this god is the author of my misfortunes.
Tusculan Disputations
Sea god implicitly invoked through the epithet 'Neptunian' describing the divine horses of Pelops.
one is at hand to take you up — either a dolphin, as it took up Arion of Methymna, or those Neptunian horses of Pelops, which are said to have whirled their chariots, suspended, across the waves;
De Rerum Natura
The sea personified/named as the god Neptune, used both poetically and as an example of allegorical divine naming.
Decides to call the ocean Neptune, or
That with smooth elements are mixed the rough
(Whence Neptune's salt astringent body comes),
Amphitruo
Sea deity mentioned by Mercury as an example of gods who boast of their services in tragedies.
But why should I mention how in Tragedies I have seen others, such as Neptune, Valour, Victory, Mars, Bellona, making mention of the good services which they had done you?
Letters to Lucilius
Roman god of the sea, invoked in an analogy about gratitude owed for safe passage.
But just as a man judges that he owes more to Neptune, out of those who have enjoyed the same calm, who has carried more and more precious cargo over that sea — the vow is paid more spiritedly by the merchant than by the passenger, and of the merchants themselves he is more lavishly grateful who carried perfumes and purple and things to be weighed against gold than he who had heaped up the cheapes …
Adversus Marcionem
Roman god said to have been invented by Romulus.
Otherwise, if man will invent a god in the way that Romulus invented Consus and Tatius Cloacina and Hostilius Pavor and Metellus Alburnus and a certain one before this time Antinous, this will be lawful for others too.
Apologeticum
God depicted as a hired builder for a mortal king.
another lets out the building services of Neptune to Laomedon.
De Spectaculis
God of the sea and horses, honored under the name Consus by the Consualia and as Hippios in horsemanship.
The dolphins vomit for Neptune;
likewise the Nemea to Hercules, the Isthmia to Neptune;
But Neptune too is a horseman, whom the Greeks call Hippios.
History of the Peloponnesian War
God to whom the Athenians dedicate a captured ship after their first naval victory.
and after erecting a trophy at Rhium, and dedicating a ship to Neptune, they returned to Naupactus.