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Aius Locutius, also called Loquens, was a Roman numen associated with the Gallic invasions of the early 4^th century. In 390 BC, the Gauls moved in the direction of Rome, the capital of the Roman Republic. According to Roman folklore, a Roman named Caedicius kept hearing a disembodied nocturnal voice at the base of the Palatine hill in the Roman Forum. The voice warned Caedicius of the oncoming attack and recommended that the walls of Rome be fortified. The authorities didn't believe his story and the Gauls entered the city without difficulty and burned it. The Romans eventually drove the Gauls away.
An altar inscribed si deus si dea has been misidentified at times as the "Ara Aius Locutius", mentioned in some Roman texts. In reality the divinity for which the altar was constructed is unknown.

External links and references

Rodolfo Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome, 1892
Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 1929
David Engels, Das römische Vorzeichenwesen (753-27 v.Chr.). Quellen, Terminologie, Kommentar, historische Entwicklung, Stuttgart, 2007, p. 374f. (RVW 58)

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