Cicero Quote

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.


De Natura Deorum – On the Nature of the Gods (45 BC), Book I, section 84


Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names ...

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names ...

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names ...

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names ...