June 20 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius
C C | XII Kal. | VI.729-731, on this day a temple was dedicated to the god Summanus.
Iam tua, Laomedon, oritur nurus ortaque noctem
pellit, et e pratis uda pruina fugit: 730
reddita, quisquis is est, Summano templa feruntur,
tum, cum Romanis, Pyrrhe, timendus eras.
729 Now, Laomedon,1 thy son’s wife rises, and having risen she dispels the night, and the dank hoar-frost flees from the meadows. The temple is said to have been dedicated to Summanus,2 whoever he may be, at the time when thou, Pyrrhus, wast a terror to the Romans.3
1
Father of Tithonus.
2
A sort of nocturnal Jupiter, god of the nightly sky, especially in his capacity of a hurler of lightning.
3
Probably 278 B.C.