god
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Jupiter
also: Iuppiter, Jupiter Best and Greatest, Iupiter optime maxime
Jupiter Best and Greatest, chief god of the Roman state, worshipped on the Capitol. Invoked at the speech's opening and presented as the divine author of Trajan's adoption.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.7.1 Jupiter Best and Greatest
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state; Pliny likens Octavius's power over him to Homer's Zeus.
- The Letters §3.6.4 temple of Jupiter
The temple of Jupiter at Comum, where Pliny means to dedicate the bronze; Jupiter is the supreme Roman god.
- Panegyric to Trajan §1 Jupiter
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, chief god of the Roman state, whose temple crowned the Capitol; Pliny invokes him as founder and preserver of the empire.
- Panegyric to Trajan §8 the couch of Jupiter
The pulvinar, the sacred couch on which a god's image was placed; Pliny stresses that the adoption was enacted before it, in the temple, not in a bedchamber.
- Panegyric to Trajan §94 Jupiter of the Capitol
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, worshipped in the great temple on the Capitol as guardian of the Roman state; Pliny closes the speech with a prayer to him for Trajan's safety and a worthy successor.