RUSTIC GODS, or dii rustici, in Antiquity, were the gods of the country, or those who presided over agriculture. Varro invokes the twelve dii consentes, as the principal amongst the rustic gods, viz. Jupiter, Tellus, the Sun, Moon, Ceres, Bacchus, Rubigus, Flora, Minerva, Venus, Lympha, and Good Luck. Besides these twelve archi-
rustic gods, there were an infinity of lesser ones; as Pales, Vertumnus, Tutelina, Fulgor, Sterculius, Mellona, Jugitinus, Collinus, Vallonia, Terminus, Sylvanus, and Priapus. Struvius adds the Satyrs, Fauns, Sileni, Nymphs, and even Tritons, and gives the empire over all the rustic gods to the god Pan.