The Celtic " horned god ", while well attested in iconography, cannot be identified in description of Celtic religion in Roman ethnography and does not appear to have been given any interpretatio romana, perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon.

In addition, many of the epithets of Zeus can be found applied to Jupiter, by interpretatio romana.

Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio romana, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis.

According to interpretatio romana, which sought the equivalence of Roman to Greek deities, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology ; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto.

This, however, is of course an example of interpretatio romana: what Caesar meant was that the Gauls all claimed descent from a Gaulish god similar to the Roman Dis Pater, that is, a chthonic deity associated with prosperity and fertility.

In the ancient Celtic pantheon, Camulus or Camulos was a theonym for a god whom the Romans equated with Mars by interpretatio romana.

Taranis is likely associated with the Gallic Ambisagrus ( likely from Proto-Celtic * ambi-sagros = " about-strength "), and in the interpretatio romana with Jupiter.

The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Thor is frequently referred to — via a process known as interpretatio romana ( where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity )— as either the Roman god Jupiter ( also known as Jove ) or the Greco-Roman demigod Hercules.

In Germanic areas occupied by the Roman Empire, coins and votive objects dating from the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been found with Latin inscriptions referring to " Hercules ", and so in reality, with varying levels of likelihood, refer to Thor by way of interpretatio romana.

Hercules was likely frequently identified with Thor by the Romans due to the practice of interpretatio romana.

" The name is known from an inscription found near the French town of Sablet which identifies him with the Roman god Mars ( an interpretatio romana ).

Jove's Oak ( interpretatio romana for Donar's Oak and therefore sometimes referred to as Thor's Oak ) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now the region of Hesse, Germany.

Later, having been a Roman ally in the Samnite Wars, the civitas Butuntinenses became a Roman municipium, preserving its former laws and self-government and venerating its divine protectress, whom the Romans identified by interpretatio romana as Minerva ; the site sacred to her is occupied by the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

In Greek this name was rendered Diospolis, " City of Zeus ", as Zeus was the god whom the Greeks identified with Amun, see interpretatio graeca.

When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes, rather than considering them separate deities, the Romans interpreted them as local manifestations or aspects of their own gods, a cultural trait called the interpretatio Romana.

Romans associated Mercury with the Germanic god Wotan, by interpretatio Romana ; 1st-century Roman writer Tacitus identifies him as the chief god of the Germanic peoples.

By employing a practice known as interpretatio germanica during the Roman Empire period, the Germanic peoples adopted the Roman weekly calendar, and replaced the names of Roman gods with their own.

Such identifications derive from interpretatio graeca, the Hellenic habit of identifying gods of disparate mythologies with their own.

The alphabet, weights and measures, coinage, many gods and cults ( see interpretatio Romana ) as well as the building of temples were derived from the Greeks.

During the Hellenization of Roman literature and culture, the Romans identified their own gods with those of the Greeks, adapting the stories told about them ( see interpretatio graeca ) and importing other myths for which they had no counterpart.

Several of the major Greek goddesses were identified with Tanit by the syncretic interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the gods of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.

Instead of being dedicated to one god, the Roman temple combined ( interpretatio graeca ) all of the gods affiliated with heaven that were worshipped in the region such as Hadad, Ba ' al-Shamin and Dushara, into the " supreme-heavenly-astral Zeus ".

With the increasing Hellenization of literate upper-class Roman culture in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the Romans tried to equate their own deities with one of the Greeks ', applying in reverse the Greeks ' own interpretatio graeca.

During the same period, inherited traditions of native Roman religion were marginalized or overlaid by interpretatio graeca, and the Roman imperial cult evolved into a civil religion which involved state ritual rather than religious faith or experience.

The mythology and religion of the Illyrians is only known through mention of Illyrian deities on Roman Empire period monuments, some with interpretatio Romana.

The mythology of the people of Illyria is only known through mention of Illyrian deities on Roman Empire period monuments, some with interpretatio Romana.

Most references to Mercurius in Gaul really refer to Lug, as he was the Celtic god that the Romans considered to be Mercury ( see interpretatio graeca for more about this practice ).

The only possible interpretatio graeca of high antiquity concerning Diana Nemorensis could have been the one based upon this ancient aspect of deity of light, master of wildlife.

Herodotus reported a temple to her in Egypt supposedly attached to a floating island called " Khemmis " in Buto, which also included a temple to an Egyptian god Greeks identified by interpretatio graeca as Apollo.

Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica.

; In claris non fit interpretatio: When a rule is clearly intelligible, there is no need of proposing an ( usually extensive ) interpretation.

He is generally identified by modern scholars either with the Northwest Semitic god El or with Dagon, and generally identified by the Greeks, by interpretatio Graeca with Greek Cronus and similarly by the Romans with Saturn.

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

It has been suggested that it means the " wrestler " or " struggler " and is an epithet of Heracles, with whom Melqart is identified by interpretatio graeca and referred to as the Tyrian Herakles, but there does not appear to be any traditional connection between Heracles and Palaemon.

Among the interesting features of this version of the flood myth, are the identification, through interpretatio graeca, of the Sumerian god Enki with the Greek god Cronus, the father of Zeus ; and the assertion that the reed boat constructed by Xisuthros survived, at least until Berossus ' day, in the " Corcyrean Mountains " of Armenia.

Several of the major Greek goddesses also were identified with Tanit by the syncretic, interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the deities of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.

Diogenes Laertius recorded that the ancient Egyptians dated their creation to their first god Hephaestus, who by interpretatio graeca was Ptah.

Indigenous variations of the patilla had names such as the a la de invenciõn, later known as the alla romana or romanlock or simply, the Italian.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

The provisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis also influenced the Canon Law of the church: it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana — the church lives by Roman law.

In Roman times, gnocchi were made from a semolina porridge-like dough mixed with eggs, and are still found in similar forms today, particularly the oven-baked gnocchi alla romana and Sardinia's malloreddus ( although these do not contain eggs ).

* Dactylorhiza romana: Roman Dactylorhiza ( Mediterranean )

Other publications of sources are his collections of ancient inscriptions ( Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum, 4 vols., Milan, 1739 – 42 ), the fourth volume containing also the ancient Christian inscriptions ; and the edition of the Roman Sacramentaries ( Liturgia romana vetus, 2 vols., Venice, 1748 ), of value to this day.

***** Roman mole, Talpa romana

Interpretatio romana is comparative discourse in reference to ancient Roman religion and myth, as in the formation of a distinctive Gallo-Roman religion.

**** Roman Mole, Talpa romana

This newer, Roman section of the city was though to have been added to the ancient Greek city during the period of the pax romana ( Roman peace ).