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(good luck), in Roman mythology, was a country deity, who had a temple in the ninth region of Rome, and was honored as an increase of the fruits and herds. He appears as a youthful hero, on a winged dragon-wagon; in his right hand a shell of sacrifice, in his left ears of corn, sometimes with a capricorn and altar.