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Terminus

A Roman divinity, presiding over boundaries and frontiers. His worship is said to have been instituted by Numa, who ordered that everyone should mark the boundaries of his landed property by stones consecrated to Jupiter, and at these boundarystones every year, sacrifices should be offered at the festival of the Terminalia .

Terminus of the Roman state originally stood between the fifth and sixth milestone on the road towards Laurentum, near a place called Festi. Another public Terminus stood in the temple of Jupiter in the Capitol.

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