Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Semōnes

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Semōnes

The Latin name for certain supernatural beings. They appear to have been, like the Lares, a kind of Genii, or demigods, and guardian deities of the State. The word has often been connected with se-, to sow (cf. se-men); and would thus mean “sowers.” Others would make it sehomōnes, demigods. On the Semones and Semo Sancus, see Sancus.

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

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