Hospitalis
the guardian or protector of the law of hospitality. We find the title of dii hospitales as applied to a distinct class of gods, though their names are not mentioned. (Tac. Ann. 15.52; Liv. 39.51; Ov. Met. 5.45.) But the great protector of hospitality was Jupiter, at Rome called Jupiter hospitalis, and by the Greeks Ζεὺς ξένιος. (Serv. ad Aen. 1.140; Cic. ad Q. frat. 2.12; Horn. Od. 14.389.)
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.