Sedatus (
Latin
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: ''SEDATVS'') was a guardian deity (''
genius
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'') of the
Breuci and the
Latobici
The Latobici or Latovici (Gaulish: ''Latobicoi'') were a Celtic tribe dwelling in Pannonia Superior, around present-day Drnovo (Slovenia), during the Roman period.
Name
They are mentioned as ''Latovici'' by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Λατόβικ ...
. Originally
Celtic, Sedatus is known to have been worshipped during the Roman Empire as late as the 2nd-century AD as indicated by a votive stone dedicated to this god by the First Cohort of the Breuci.
Sedatus may have been the namesake of the ''
Sedatii'', a Gallo-Roman family active in the mid 2nd-century AD.
[ ]Gilbert Charles-Picard
Gilbert Picard, called Gilbert Charles-Picard, (15 October 1913 – 21 December 1998) was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity.
The son of Hellenist Charles Picard (1883–1965), h ...
, ''Ostie et la Gaule de l'Ouest'',
MEFRA
', 93, 2, 1981, p. 887
Inscriptions
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References
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Bibliography
*August Dimitz, ''History of Carniola: From Ancient times to the year 1813'', vol. I p.15 and 55
Gaulish gods