(Plural: indigetes) refers to a deity or a group of deities whose identity was interpreted in different ways already in antiquity (Serv. Aen. 12,794). The etymology is also disputed: the hypothesis most widely supported today is the one according to which indiges like Indigitamenta are considered to be derived from indigitare < *end-ag-itare [1] (‘to invoke’; Fest. 101 L.: indigitanto imprecanto), with indiges, its sense passive, meaning ‘invoked’ (*indag-et-) [2. 59].
Near Lavinium on the river Numicus a cult dedicated to Jupiter Indiges (Liv. 1,2…