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Pluvius

A name given to Iupiter as the sender of rain (Tibull. i. 7, 26). Other like epithets are Pluviālis and Imbricĭtor. See Iupiter.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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