Aius Locutius

or Loquens. A Roman divinity, “the Announcer.” A short time before the Gauls took Rome (B.C. 388) a voice was heard at Rome during the silence of night announcing that the Gauls were approaching. The Romans afterwards erected on the spot where the voice had been heard an altar, with a sacred enclosure around it, to Aius Locutius. See Livy, v. 50; Camill. 30.