1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 itself most were exhumed on the site of the barracks of the equites singulares, a foreign imperial bodyguard mainly recruited from the Batavians. Her name does not appear in Tertullian's list of the indigetes di, and Juvenal contrasts her worship unfavourably…
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