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Terminus (god) has been listed as one of the Philosophy and religion good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
April 16, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 14, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

Current status: Good article

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Typo

Is terminalus a typo for terminalis? In Latin the -al- adjectival suffix is typically 3rd declension (two-termination).

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to quote or link to the description of the Terminalia in Ovid's Fasti? --Fulminouscherub 21:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Translation of concedo nulli?

Is the translation correct? I take it to mean, "I yield to none." The translation on the page suggests it's some archaic imperative and a dative of reference or something like that. If this is the case, is there an inscription it was taken from?Hariboa (talk) 13:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fasti

It would be worthwhile to include the information from the Fasti. Additionally, a theory has been proposed by Dr. Samuel Husky that Turnus's death in the Aeneid is justifiable in light of the fact that he moved a boundary stone when he lifted and hurled that boulder at Aeneas shortly before his death. According to Roman law, any person who had committed such an offense against the god could be put to death by any citizen. Just a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.15.127.254 (talk • contribs) 00:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Passed GA

A well-written, well-referenced, informative article. Perhaps it could be improved by an image of a bust or statue and (if appropriate) a myth/legend regarding Terminus. ck lostsword|^queta!|_Suggestions? 22:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

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GA Sweeps: Kept

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing Sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I went through the article and made various changes, please look them over. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good Article. Altogether the article is well-written and is still in great shape after its passing in 2007. Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 June 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn by nom. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 23:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Terminus (god) → Terminus
Terminus → Terminus (disambiguation)

– The god is the primary topic by longterm significance. Everything on the disambiguation page, if not a partial disambiguation, has a name based on the god - or at least the word based on the name of the god. (Since WP:NOTDICTIONARY, it would not make sense to have an article on the word.) _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 03:27, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose clearly not remotely the primary in books or anywhere else, a terminus is a Bus terminus. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per User:In ictu oculi above. No primary topic. Paintspot Infez (talk) 14:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, current WP:NOPRIMARY setup is best. 162 etc. (talk) 14:28, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oddly enough I'm going to oppose this one. I know I've argued several times for deities being primary over the things that have been named after them—but in this case I don't think that's the case. I think that the rather obscure deity was probably a personification of boundaries, rather than the origin of the word, and in this case I suspect that other uses are much more widely familiar than the god himself, and many of them are independent, rather than named after him; i.e. referring to a boundary or end point rather than a personification. P Aculeius (talk) 15:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose clearly not the wp:primarytopic —blindlynx (talk) 18:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This topic has exactly the same usage share as Vesta and Juno. If only one third of readers who land on the dab page then go on to follow the link to this article, then it's not the primary topic. – Uanfala (talk) 18:11, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:13, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Jupiter

William Smith regards Terminus as an aspect of Jupiter. He posits that this explains why there was a Terminus stone in the temple and he questions the traditional story of the augury &c. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 00:30, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Erasmus image

I think the Erasmus image is given too much prominence in the article. The Romans left us oodles of boundary markers, but they aren't humanoid. The Capitoline cult object was probably a sacred stone of some sort (see e.g. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby or Notes on the Eighth Book of the Commentary of Servius on Vergil's Aeneid by Edna Wiegand, or the classical sources they cite like Serv. A. 9.446), not a statue. The only possible Roman source I've that isn't clearly based on the Greek hermae is this coin:

Actual coins: [1] [2] [3] [4]

It was minted on order of the son of Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus. At first sight it looks less of a conventional herma than this coin: [5] But Celestino Cavedoni argues it's an image of Mercury just like the coin's twin, which features the god's face, although I must say I'm not quite 100% convinced by his reasoning and others did think it might represent Terminus. But then again, if there are no other humanoid representations of a Roman Terminus, then doesn't that make the Mercury hypothesis more likely?

As for the origin of Erasmus's Terminus, it came from a gem that an early 16th century Italian antiquarian had identified as being an image of Terminus, but according to John Rowlands it is nowadays thought to represent a herma of Dionysos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 03:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

In English, is it a homophone of the word terminus? ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 11:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]