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Ocelus is a
Celtic god known from three inscriptions in
Roman Britain. He is twice invoked on dedications at
Caerwent: one stone is the base of a state of which only a pair of human feet and a pair of goose feet survive. The invocation is to
Mars Lenus or Ocelus
Vellaunus and the "numen" (spirit) of the emperor, and was dedicated on 23 August AD 152. The second Caerwent inscription dedicates an altar to Mars Ocelus. The god was also venerated at
Carlisle, where he was once more equated with Mars and again linked to the imperial cult. So Ocelus seems to have been a British, perhaps
Silurian god, associated with Mars, probably in the latter's Celtic capacity as a protector. At Caerwent he's linked with Lenus, a Treveran healing deity, and with Vellaunus, who is recorded among the Gaulish
Allobroges.
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