[1] Their specific attributes and number are unknown; Jean-René Jannot [fr] suggests that they may represent either an archaic principle of divinity or "the very fate that dominates individualized gods".
[2] The sky-god Tinia was believed to require their consent to cast the thunderbolt that announced disasters.
[3] According to Seneca in his Naturales quaestiones, The third manubia Jupiter also sends, but he summons to council the gods whom the Etruscans call the Superior, or Veiled Gods [diis quos superiores et involutos vocant], because the lightning destroys whatever it strikes and everywhere alters the state of private or public affairs that it encounters, for fire allows nothing to remain as it was.
[4]The dii involuti may be identical with the "Secret Gods of Favour" mentioned by Martianus Capella.
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