Indigetes
- heroes elevated to the rank of gods after their death, and regarded as the patron deities of their country: patrii Dii sunt, qui praesunt singulis civitatibus, ut Minerva Athenis, Juno Carthagini: Indigetes autem proprie sunt Dii ex hominibus facti, quasi in Diis agentes, Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 498: Dii Indigetes (in old prayer), Liv. 8, 9, 6.— Transf., of deified emperors, Arn. 1, 64. — In sing.: Indĭgĕs, ĕtis: Indigetem Aeneam ... Deberi caelo, Verg. A. 12, 794: deus, Tib. 2, 5, 43: pater, Sol. 2, 15: Juppiter, Liv. 1, 2, 6; Gell. 2, 16, 9; in the form INDIGENS, of Aeneas, Inscr. Pompej. ap. Bull. Arch. Nap. 1845, p. 35: Indigetes dii, quorum nomina vulgari non licet, Paul. ex Fest. p. 106 Müll.
INDIGE´TESor INDI´GETAE, (Ἰνδικῆται, Strab.; Κνδιγέται, Ptol.), a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, in the extreme NE. corner of the peninsula, around the gulf of Rhoda and Emporiae ( Gulf of Ampurias), as far as the Trophies of Pompey (τὰ Πομπηλου τρόπαια, ἀναθήματα τοῦ Πομπηΐου), on the summit of the pass over the Pyrenees, which formed the boundary of Gaul and Spain (Strab. 3. p. 160, 4. p. 178). [POMPEII TROPAEA.] They were divided into four tribes. Their chief cities, besides EMPORIAEand RHODAwere: JUNCARIA(Ἰουγγαρία, Ptol. 2.6.73 Junquera, or, as some suppose, Figueras), 16 M. P. south of the summit of the Pyrenees (Summum Pyrenaeum, Itin.), on the high road to Tarraco ( Itin. Ant. pp. 390, 397); CINNIANA( Cervia), 15 M. P. further S. ( Ib.; Tab. Peut. ); and DECIANAnear Junquera(Ptol. 2.6.73). On the promontory formed by the E. extremity of the Pyrenees ( C.Crews), was a temple of Venus, with a small seaport on the N. side (Ἀφροδισίας, Steph. B.; τὸ Ἀφροδίσιον ἱερόν, Ptol. 2.6.20; Pyrenaea Venus, Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Portus Veneris, Mela, 2.6.5 ; Portus Pyrenaei, Liv. 34.8: Porte Vendres), which some made the boundary of Gaul and Spain, instead of the Trophies of Pompey, Ptolemy names two small rivers as falling into the gulf of Emporiae, the CLODIANUS(Κλωδιανός· Fluvia) and the SA3SBROCAS(Σαμβρόκα ἐκβολαί): Pliny names the TICHISwhich is the small river flowing past Rosas.The district round the gulf of Emporiae was called JUNCARIUS CAMPUS(τὸ Ἰουγγάριον πεδίον), from the abundance of rushes which grew upon its marshy soil. (Strab. iii. pp. 156, 163; Steph. B. s. v. Ἰνδικῆται;Eustath. ad II. 1. p. 191; Avien. Or. Mar. 523; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. pp. 315, &c.)
[P.S]The name of those indigenous gods and heroes at Rome who once lived on earth as mortals, and were worshipped after their death as gods. Thus Aeneas, after his disappearance on the banks of the Numicus, became a deus indiges, pater indiges, or Inpiter Indiges; and in like manner Romulus became Quirinus, and Latinus, Iupiter Latiaris.