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In the popular religion of ancient Rome, though not appearing in literary
Roman mythology Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans. One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, ''Roman mythology'' may also refer to the modern study of these represent ...
, the god Fabulinus (from ''fabulari'', to speak) taught children to speak. He received an offering when the child spoke its first words. He figured among what
Walter Pater Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art critic and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, ''Studies in the History of the Re ...
enumerated in '' Marius the Epicurean'' (1885) among:
the names of that populace of 'little gods', dear to the Roman home, which the pontiffs had placed on the sacred list of the '' Indigitamenta'', to be invoked, because they can help, on special occasions, were not forgotten in the long litany— Vatican who causes the infant to utter his first cry, Fabulinus who prompts his first word,
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who keeps him quiet in his cot,
Domiduca In Roman mythology, the goddess Domiduca protects children on the way back to their parents' home. Her male counterpart was Domitius, Domidius or Domiducus, from ''domus'', "house," and ''eo, ire, itum'', "to go." Domiduca and Domiducus were also m ...
especially, for whom Marius had through life a particular memory and devotion, the goddess who watches over one's safe coming home".Pater, ''Marius the Epicurean'', ch. I, "The Religion of Numa".


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List of Roman birth and childhood deities In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and child development. Some major deities of Roman religion had a specialized function they contributed to this ...


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