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Falacer

or, more fully, divus pater Falacer, is mentioned by Varro (de L. L. 5.84, 7.45) as an ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, whom Hartung (Die Rel. d. Röm ii. p. 9) is inclined to consider to be the same as Jupiter, since falandum according to Festus, was the Etruscan name for "heaven."

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.