the names of that populace of 'little gods', dear to the Roman home, which the pontiffs had placed on the sacred list of the ''Indigitamenta'',〔Lists of prayer formularies for invocations, or names of deities; cf. ''Di indigetes''.〕 to be invoked, because they can help, on special occasions, were not forgotten in the long litany— Vatican who causes the infant to utter his first cry, Fabulinus who prompts his first word, Cuba who keeps him quiet in his cot, Domiduca especially, for whom Marius had through life a particular memory and devotion, the goddess who watches over one's safe coming home".〔Pater, ''Marius the Epicurean'', ch. I, "The Religion of Numa". 〕