The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
Old Italic god of animal and vegetable fertility; after equation with → Dionysos, he figured on his own as nothing more than a god of wine. On the day of his feast (17 March) youths donned the toga virilis for the first time, in token of their reaching man’s estate.
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