Editing Iguvine Tablets (section)

====Marte Hodie; Hondos Çerfios====

Marte and Hondos appear also under these epithets. Here too the only certain indication is from Roman ''Heres'' (or ''Here'') ''Martea'', connected with ''heres'', he who inherits and also ''dominus'', the position of master of the house.<ref>Gellius XIII 23, 1 and 18; Festus s. v. p. 89 L; Ennius ''Annales'' 104 "''...Nerienem Mavortis et Herem...''". [[Hendrik Wagenvoort]] ''Pietas.Selected Essays on Roman Religion'' Leiden 1980 p. 175.</ref> Some scholars though connect the epithet to Latin adjective ''fodius'', he who destroys. The two gods both receive sacrifices of male calves in the rites for the lustration of the citadel at the Iovian and Coredian groves respectively; theirs are the last in the series of sacrifices after the two triads and before the execration of the enemies.

God Hondos receives the epithet ''Iovios'' in II and that of ''Çerfios'' in VI. This fact raises the question of whether these epithets were used alternatively in connexion with local or temporal constraints. Another similar instance is that of ''Tursa Çerfia'' and ''Tursa Iovia'', who are found without and within the ''pomerium'' respectively.