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Honoree of the Romans' Matronalia festival
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juno
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman goddess of women and marriage, mid-14c., perhaps literally "the young one" (perhaps as goddess of the new moon), from an Italic root akin to Latin iunior "younger," iuvenis "young" (see young ).
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Kim Jun-ho (born on 15 December 1986) is a South Korean singer, who is mainly active in Japan and China , where he is more well known by his stage names JUNO and ZUNO. His younger fraternal twin brother is JYJ -member Junsu . In 2014 he changed his name ...
Usage examples of juno.
Phrygians call me the mother of the Gods: the Athenians, Minerva: the Cyprians, Venus: the Candians, Diana: the Sicilians Proserpina: the Eleusians, Ceres: some Juno, other Bellona, other Hecate: and principally the Aethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Aegyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustome to worship mee, doe call mee Queene Isis.
Yet, well as she understood her father, Bids made a mistake when her mother returned to Juno.
Furthermore, the observatories at Ceres, Vesta, Juno, or Pallas might pick up the flash.
Juno lay flat on her belly, silly duckbilled face between her front hooves, like a puppy.
In Arcadia, and Elis, the most antient rites were preserved: and the Grecians might have known, that the terms Hippa and Hippia were of foreign purport from the other titles given to Juno at Olympia.
AEneas, the influence of Juno upon the mind of Dido, makes Cupid assume the forme of his child Julus or Ascanius, and raise in the bosom of the Queen the most ungovernable passion for AEneas.
She succeeded so well that even Juno Lucina had not been able to find her, for she was barren.
Gods of women are for men too, Juno Lucina and Juno Sospita and the rest, but Bona Dea is ours alone.
Leaving the Treasury stuffed to the rafters with money and bullion, not to mention various emergency hoards of bullion in the temples of Ops, Juno Moneta, Hercules Olivarius and Mercury, and thousands of chests of money in Juno Lucina, Iuventus, Venus Libitina and Venus Erucina.
Gaius Julius Caesar, was born on the thirteenth day of Quinctilis, which meant that his birth was entered in the register at the temple of Juno Lucina as occurring two days before the Ides of Quinctilis, his status as patrician, his rank as senatorial.
The first day of March, when husbands and wives joined in praying to Juno Lucina for the happiness and continuance of their married life.
As Juno Lucina, Queen of Celestial Light, She is related to Her Greek counterpart, Hera, from Whose breasts streamed the Milky Way.
I wrote the story of Juno Lucina in order to conceptualize Her regenerative power as it relates to Her Son, the Sun or the Seasonal Year.
When the people watch the light of the Year turn short, then long again, they call Her Juno Lucina and tell the story of how She gives birth to Her Son, the Year, how He dies, and how He is born again from Great Mother Juno.
Juno Lucina sat very still at the table before the mirror at the darkest end of her cave.