The Worship of Antinous, Inscriptiones Latinae Orelli 823

 

Antinoo et Beleno par aetas formaque par est;

Cur non Antinous sit quoque qui Belenus.  [Inscr. Orell.823]

 

Antinous and Belenus* are equal in age and beauty,

So why can’t Antinous also be like Belenus [i.e., a god?]

 

*Belenus was the name of an Italian god of light and healing, usually associated with Apollo