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The Roman god of fire and an artificer In metals, identified with the Greek Hephæstus (q. v .); had a temple to his honour in early Rome; was fabled to have had a forge under Mount Etna, where he manufactured thunderbolts for Jupiter, the Cyclops being his workmen.