Prayers to Vulcanus

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As I wrote earlier, prayers to Vulcanus are scarce in Roman
 
literature. However there is mention of a charm where He is invoked
 
to ward off fires from a home. It was very common for Roman houses
 
to have such charms, so He was more important than our sources
 
indicate. I'll have to see if I can recover that. These, however,
 
are the only prayers I have found thus far.
 
  
==Grattius Faliscus Gynegetica 437-42==
 
 
Holy Vulcanus, foremost of those who cherish this place, to You we
 
pray for peace. Grant Your ultimate assistance to the tired and
 
worn, and, if no one here merits punishment for some noxious crime,
 
may You have mercy on all their souls and allow them to reach Your
 
purifying fountains. Three times they invoke Your name, three times
 
they pour rich incense upon the focal fire, and strew the altar with
 
auspicious boughs in Your honor.
 
 
==Martial Epigrammata 5.7.5 To Vulcan==
 
 
Soon, I pray, Vulcan, memories of whispered rumors of disgrace and
 
loud quarrels of complaint You will no longer hold against the
 
children of Mars; we are also the children of Your sweet wife Venus,
 
spare us, Father.
 

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