Which river was known to the Romans as 'Rhenus'?
Rhenus Pater Rhenus Pater Rhenus Pater ("Father Rhine", German "Vater Rhein") is the personification or river god of the Rhine, attested in epigraphy and associated with Neptunus, called "father of nymphs and rivers" by Martial (10.7). Because of his depiction with horns also called "Rhenus bicornis", and as an allegory of the subjugated barbarian tribes called "Rhenus cornibus fractis" "Rhenus with broken horns" by Ovid. There are records of Celtic and Germanic human sacrifice to river gods, and of the Rhine specifically records of a custom of submerging newly-born infants as a test of either their vitality, or as an oracle to
Rhenus (company) of VEBA. In 1971 Hugo Stinnes restructured its inland waterway shipping activities. The Fendel-Stinnes-Schiffahrt company was set up near Duisburg. In 1976 Rhenus merged with Fendel-Stinnes-Schiffahrt and WTAG to form Rhenus-WTAG with company headquarters moving to Dortmund. At this stage, Rhenus-WTAG had 40 branch offices throughout Germany. The CCS Combined Container Service was founded at the same time. In 1984 Rhenus-WTAG merged with Westfaelische Transport-AG and resumed under the name Rhenus. In 1988 Rhenus was restructured into three companies: Rhenus Weichelt handled road freight transport, Rhenus Lager und Umschlag took on warehousing, transhipment and inland waterway shipping and Rhenus Transport