ABSTRACT
Honos was a significant divine quality in Rome, about which only a limited amount of evidence survives. A variety of points of interest emerge from an exploration of the new texts, alongside the broader benefit of having increased our evidence base in Italy for honos, or for something linguistically akin to honos. In Rome at least one cult to honos is likely to have existed from relatively early in the third century, and it may conceivably have been the one that had the broadest appeal. The nexus of associations that are brought out by joint foundations or visual or verbal representations of honos and virtus, in which virtus is effectively presented as the route to winning honos, more clearly set up honos almost as reward for virtus. Outside Rome, a cult to honos at Puteoli could also potentially be inferred from mention in the lex Puteolana de parieti faciendo of 105 BC, though the surviving inscription is of later date.
