consus

Updated: June 24, 2025

Romulus, like many an ardent lover since, evidently thought that all was fair in love and war, and, after failing in all his efforts to lead the neighboring peoples to allow the Roman men to marry their women, he gave it out that he had discovered the altar of the god Consus, who presided over secret deliberations, a very suitable divinity to come up at the juncture, and that he intended to celebrate his feast.

Arthur Gilman - The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic