"Thee first, O Vulcan, and thy peace, holy dweller in this place, do we entreat: grant final aid to our wearied fortunes, and, if no guilt is here deserving penalty so great, pity these many lives and suffer them, holy one, to attain to thy fountains" te primum, Vulcane, loci, pacemque precamur, incola sancte, tuam: da fessis ultima rebus auxilia et, meriti si nulla est noxia tanti, tot miserare animas liceatque attingere fontes, sancte, tuos
- Grattius Faliscus, Cynegeticon (437-42), translation University of Chicago
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[Image description: engraving, god Vulcan standing with chest exposed in a niche flanked by classical columns. He holds a hammer and possibly a helmet. He has curly hair and a gruff face. Above the niche arch, his name is portrayed with Latin letters as "Vvlcanvs." 1592, artist Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio. End description.]
