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Celtic god associated with Mars
Ocelus is a Celtic god known from three inscriptions in Roman Britain. He is twice invoked on dedications at Caerwent: one stone is the base of a statue of which only a pair of human feet and a pair of goose feet survive. The invocation is to Mars Lenus or Ocelus Vellaunus and to the numen of the emperor, and was dedicated on 23 August AD 152. The second Caerwent inscription dedicates an altar to Mars Ocelus. The god was also venerated at Carlisle, where he was once more equated with Mars and again linked to the imperial cult. So Ocelus seems to have been a British, perhaps Silurian god, associated with Mars, probably in the latter's Celtic capacity as a protector. At Caerwent he is linked with Lenus, a Treveran healing deity, and with Vellaunus, who is also recorded among the Gaulish Allobroges; the name "Vellaunus" has been glossed as 'chief' or 'commander'. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: V. E. Nash-Williams, The Roman inscribed and sculptured Stones found at Caerwent (Venta Silurum), with Notes on Mars-Lenus-Ocelus and the Caerwent Temple. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, xv (1953), 81–98, with 4 figures and 7 plates. University of Wales Press and the National Museum of Wales, 1953.Cited 0 times
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- 📕School district reorganizationCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1957
- 📕Educational change in reorganized school districtsCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1953
- 📕Local planning for better school districtsCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1957
- 📕Organizing districts for better schoolsCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1958
- 📕Selected characteristics of reorganized school districtsCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1953
- 📕State school system development: patterns and trendsCharles Ocelus Fitzwater · 1968
- 📕County school administrationCooper, Shirley Fitzwater, Charles Ocelus, · 1954
- 📕County school administrationShirley Cooper · 1954
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