Distinction From "Dei Filius"
The term used for Julius Caesar and the deified emperors was "divus", not "deus', the word used for gods such as Jupiter and Mars. Augustus was thus called "Divi Filius", not "Dei Filius", the phrase that Christians used of Jesus.
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