# If you made up a Roman god of traffic control, what would be its name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398 "2023-10-31T22:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/21 "2023-11-01T00:53:32Z")
Finus Maximus ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/22 "2023-11-01T01:19:48Z")
I think that [Anoia](https://wiki.lspace.org/Anoia) could very well branch out from Discworld and make a claim! After all, it’s also about thinks stuck (in drawers) at least… Of course, according to this [Facebook Post](https://www.facebook.com/OfficialQI/posts/anoia-goddess-of-things-that-get-stuck-in-drawers-might-have-been-a-creation-of-/2154849791196212/): > Anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers, might have been a creation of Terry Pratchett, but the ancient Romans did have a goddess of hinges. Her name was Cardea, and according to Ovid, “she opens things that have been closed, and closes things that have been opened”. > **[Cardea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardea)** > > Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin cardo, cardinis), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges. The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph. Ovid's conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention, but it has also been conjectured that Carna was a contracted form of Cardina, and at mi In the C... So we have an actual Roman Goddess who might make the cut! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/23 "2023-11-01T01:29:51Z")
As a former Catholic, I offer Christopherus, of course. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/24 "2023-11-01T01:53:31Z")
Trafficus. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/25 "2023-11-01T01:57:24Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Semaphorus is the original Greek god. Lux Alternativus is the Roman surplant. Herodotus links him somewhat dubiously to the Egyptians, claiming it was originally Semap-Horus… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/26 "2023-11-01T05:34:14Z")
Vialetta ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/27 "2023-11-01T11:11:23Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Lux Alterna? Clever! ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Roundaboutus Dang, I was going to use that. OK, how about Detourus. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/29 "2023-11-01T16:25:47Z")
Dangit, I like all of these for different reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/30 "2023-11-01T22:14:30Z")
Opus-Domi. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/31 "2023-11-01T23:53:32Z")
Work at Home? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/32 "2023-11-02T00:14:39Z")
Clusterfucius. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/33 "2023-11-02T00:16:35Z")
Jamus. The 3 faced god (red, yellow, and green) of traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/34 "2023-11-02T00:59:04Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Clusterfucius. That’s the god of the first roundabout in the county. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/35 "2023-11-02T04:16:55Z")
Tailbachus ---
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Honkus Vroomus ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/37 "2023-11-05T14:47:36Z")
Appium imperium ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/38 "2023-11-05T17:58:09Z")
Pandemonium ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/39 "2023-11-05T22:04:43Z")
That’s what you get when the streets are widened to accommodate future development, and then the development doesn’t happen. Donuts and sideshows ensue. Not to mention general speeding and missing turns. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398/40 "2023-11-18T00:02:44Z")
What ever name you settle on, it is clear that that god’s sibling would be Administratium. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-made-up-a-roman-god-of-traffic-control-what-would-be-its-name/992398.md?page=3)