Terminus, in Roman mythology, was the god of boundaries and protector of both limits of private property and of the public territory of Rome. He was represented by a stone or post set up in the ground.
On the 23rd of February (the end of the old Roman year) a festival called Terminalia was held in the ancient city and its environs. Owners of adjacent lands assembled around common boundary stones and crowned their sides of the stones with garlands, incense, fruits, honey and wine. Proceedings closed with songs to the god and general merrymaking, in which all members of the family and friends took part.
Any one who removed a boundary stone was accursed and might be slain with impunity; a fine was afterwards substituted for the death penalty.
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