Q. Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BbCE)
Janus
Satires II 6.20-3
Father Matutinus, or else Janus, if You so prefer to hear, regarded by men as the beginning of works and life's labors, so does it please the Gods, may You begin my song.
Jupiter
Epistles I 18.107-12
May I have what I have now, and also a little more, that, the Gods willing, I may yet live what remains of a lifetime. May I have enough books and provisions to last the year, and not wallow in doubts with hopes wavering each hour.
It is enough to pray, Jupiter, who gives and takes away; may You grant me life; may You grant me the means, and I shall provide a balanced mind myself.
Satires II 3.281-4
Early each morning a freedman, very much up in age, made his circuit of neighborhood shrines, fasting and with washed hands praying to each in turn, "Spare me alone; it is but a little thing to ask," he would add, "Spare me alone from death. Truly, for the Gods it is something easily done."
Satires II 3.288-92
For a child lying sick in bed for five long months, a mother calls out, "O Jupiter, who gives and takes away great anguish, if the quartan ague leaves my child, then on the day You indicate to hold a fast, nude he shall stand in the Tiber River."
Neptune
Carminum Liber I v
(O Neptune)
...stare in wondering shock
At winds gone wild on blackening seas!
...how false the breeze can blow.
Pity all those who have not found out
Your glossy sweetness! My shipwreck's tale
Hangs, told in colours, on Neptune's temple wall, a votive
Plaque, with salvaged clothes
Still damp, vowed to the sea's rough lord.
Mars
Carminum Liber I v 35-40; 49-52
Father of our nation, recall your neglected grandchildren. We pray You return. Alas, too long have You grown weary of the game; its din of battle, the gleaming helmets, the legions and bloodthirsty Mauri grimacing upon each other as enemies.
Rather may You love once more to be called Father and Prince, carried in great triumphal processions, and not allow the Medes to ride away unavenged. Lead Caesar to You
Venus
Carminum Liber I v 33-4
Glad Venus of Erycina, (we pray You may come), with Laughter and Cupid attending.
Carminum Liber I: xxx.1-8:
Come to us Venus, O Queen of Cnidos and Paphos, leave Cyprus, though the isle is dear to you, come instead to where the incense is thick and Glycera sings to you, that you may transfer your home to your new shrine among us. Bring along for your company desirous Cupid, loose-girdled Graces and Nymphs, youthful Juventus and Mercury, who without you are graceless
Faunus
Carmina Liber III.xviii.1-8
Amorous Faunus, from whom the Nymphs flee, step lightly across my boundaries and sunny fields, and soon depart, leaving your blessing on my young lambs and kids, and leveled tender shoots.
If gentle, at year's end a plumb kid I'll offer, with wine libations liberally poured from the cups of Venus' devotees, and many sweet, fragrant herbs I?ll burn on your ancient altar.
Diana
Carmina Liber III.xxii.1-8
Guardian of hills and forest groves, Virgin, whom young mothers thrice invoke at childbirth, listen and deliver them from death. Triple goddess, to you I dedicate this pine tree that now overhangs my villa, and each year the blood of a wild boar, who ponders an oblique thrust, I will gladly give to its roots as drink.
Apollo
Carminum Liber I ii 30-3
Pray now, come, augur Apollo, we pray You may come with shining shoulders shrouded in clouds.
Liber
Carminum Liber II: xix.7-8
Euhoe! Save me Liber, spare me grave master of the fearful ivy-rod.
Mercurius
Satres II 6.4-5
It is all for the best. Nothing more ample do I pray, O Maia's son, save that You will make these my gifts last throughout my life.
Satires II 6.14-5
May You make plump the riches of my house and all else there, save my natural talents in any case, and as usual, may You remain the primary guardian over me.
Satires II 6.8
O if only this nearby corner of land would fall to my share, which squares the little field I now have.
Hercules
Satires II 6.10-3
O if only an urn of silver Fortuna would ordain that for me, like the man who found a treasure, and with it bought the very same field in which he worked as a hired hand, a divine favor from Hercules.
Note: Compare to Persius Satires II 11, "O if only favoring Hercules would set an urn of silver beneath my serrated hoe."