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EPONA, a goddess of horses, asses and mules, worshipped by the Romans, though of foreign, probably Gallic, origin. The majority of inscriptions and images bearing her name have been found in Gaul, Germany and the Danube countries; of the few that occur in Rome ...

... priests were called Poloi (colts) in Laconia. In Gaul we find a horse-goddess, Epona; there are also traces of a horse-god, Rudiobus. The Gonds in India worship a horse-god, Koda Pen, in the form of a shapeless stone; but it is not clear that the horse is reg ...

... ichs invented by Archilochus. Accordingly we find thc first ten of these epodes EPONA— EPSOM composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter, thus: — " At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit Terras et humanum genus." In the seven remaining epod ...