Sol
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the Sun · Sol, his sire · most high Sun
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Sun“Sol”2 mentions
On the Commonwealth (Latin) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
"I give thanks to thee, most high Sun, and to you, the rest of the Heavenly Ones, that before I depart from this life I behold, in my kingdom and beneath these roofs, Publius Cornelius Scipio, by whose very name I am revived;
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
The Sun, invoked as a divine power and described as the ruling body of the cosmic order.
"I give thanks to thee, most high Sun, and to you, the rest of the Heavenly Ones, that before I depart from this life I behold, in my kingdom and beneath these roofs, Publius Cornelius Scipio, by whose very name I am revived;
then, beneath, almost in the middle region, the Sun holds his place, leader and chief and ruler of the other lights, the mind and the tempering of the universe, of so great magnitude that he lights up and fills all things with his radiance.
On the Nature of the Gods
The Sun, treated as a divine figure and father of Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, and identified by the Greeks with Apollo
That the sun is a god and the moon, of which the Greeks think the one Apollo, the other Diana.
What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?
De Rerum Natura
The sun god, father of Phaethon, who restores the sun's horses to their course after the disaster.
Those horses to the earth.
The ever-blazing lampion of the world,
Restored the cosmos,- as forsooth we hear