Talassio, Talassius, Thalassius
A primitive Sabine deity invoked in the priestly books (
indigitamenta)
as the god of marriage. Varro regarded the noun as derived from
τάλαρος, a wool-basket, as symbolizing the household work most typical of the
Roman matron (
Quaest. Rom. 31). See
Matrimonium, p. 1016.