Jupiter Optimus Maximus

And the force called Jupiter Optimus Maximus was the sum total of all other forces, the connective tissue which bound them all together in a way logical to forces, if mysterious to men.

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By Jupiter Optimus Maximus and all the gods, he dared!

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

By Jupiter Optimus Maximus and all the gods, he dared!

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

It would certainly seem that Jupiter Optimus Maximus is determined to have you in the Senate!

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

In order to obtain his consent, you will give Jupiter Optimus Maximus his own animal, a white bull.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

They were in the Curia Hostilia, where the New Year's Day inaugural meeting of the Senate was being held because there was no temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, and the size of the Senate had grown sufficiently to render places like Jupiter Stator and Castor's too small for a comfortable meeting that was to be followed by a feast.

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Saturninus sought asylum in the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, but was forced to surrender when Sulla cut off the water supply to the Capitol.

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Aurelia was not present; her sex forbade her attending any sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, who was a god for Roman men.

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To be without a flamen Dialis is a grave inconvenience, but Jupiter Optimus Maximus is Rome, and he likes things to be legal.

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Not far down the good mining road from Eliocroca he found the Contestani lying in wait for him, and promised an offering to Jupiter Optimus Maximus of a bull calf if he kept his legion intact until he could reach safety.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993