entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.62 (Mercury as reason/speech in Stoic allegory). Key for Mercury's philosophical reception.
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 5.663-692: the Mercuralia (May 15); Mercury's origin as son of Maia (May's eponymous figure); his role as god of merchants and travellers; the ritual sprinkling of his waters at the Porta Capena fountain
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,"Mercury delivers Jupiter's command to Aeneas to leave Carthage (4.222-278, 4.554-570). Depicted with caduceus, winged sandals, and hat; the most vivid Hermes/Mercury description in Latin literature."