. Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities, known as the di indigetes, and according to the epic poet Virgil, he was a legendary king of the Latins, who came with his people from Arcadia, and whose shade was consulted as a god of prophecy, under the name of Fatuus, with oracles in the sacred grove of Tibur, around the well Albunea, and on the Aventine Hill in ancient Rome itself Marcus Terentius Varro asserted that the oracular responses were given in Saturnian verse. Faunus revealed the futur… (More on Faunus)