Latobius

Latobius, also Latovius is the name of a Celtic deity who is called on some inscriptions from the Roman province of Noricum and is usually equated there after the interpretatio romana with Mars.

Locations

Latobius is mentioned in four dedicatory inscriptions from Noricum, and although two of them in Seggauberg (Roman Solva, Styria ) and two more in St. Paul in the Lavant Valley (Carinthia ). In the inscriptions of Seggauberg the god Mars Latobius is called, a colossal statue is located in the Abbey Museum of Saint Paul.

The name Latobius / Latovius is etymologically unclear secure. "Bats of Fury " " the widely Tremendous ", " the Mighty in the plane " " the well- Beating ", : with Birkhan translation attempts of some specialist writers are given. The latter is not quite the same as the localities located on mountain peaks and mountain passes. Here is the Kienbachklamm at Bad Ischl in the Salzkammergut still a reference called.

Other localities are in Lendorf ( district of Spittal an der Drau ) in a Martian shrine, the so-called Römerklause from the 2nd century AD, led at the parish church of St. Peter, as well as in Spielberg field. The traditional Vierbergelauf four Carinthian mountains passes a Latobius sanctuary in the city on the Magdalen mountain.