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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 8375832, member: 75482&quot;]I find it fascinating that unlike emperors elevated to <i>divus</i> (&quot;divine&quot;) by the Senate posthumously, Probus here is <i>deus</i>, a full living &quot;god&quot; like Jupiter or Mars, a god from the get-go...</p><p><br /></p><p>One could make much of such a distinction but I wonder if, to a Roman of the period, it was simply that <i>divus </i>was only appropriate for the dead?</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, both <i>divus </i>and <i>deus </i>translate to <i>θεός </i>(&quot;god&quot;) in Greek. The Latin <i>divi filius </i>(&quot;divine son&quot;) as used by Augustus on a number of coins becomes in Greek <i>θεοῦ</i> <i>υἱός </i>(&quot;son of god&quot;), the same title used of Jesus in the Christian gospels! And yes, the Greek version is found on a handful of provincials.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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