Sedatus (
Latin
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: ''SEDATVS'') was a guardian deity (''
genius
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'') of the
Breuci
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and the
Latobici
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Name
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. Originally
Celtic
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Language and ethnicity
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**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
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, 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 ...
, ''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