Caprotina

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Cā̆prōtīna, ae, f.,

a surname of Juno at Rome , in whose honor an annual feast was held on the Nonae Caprotinae, July 17, to commemorate the delivery of Rome from the Gauls by slaves who gave warning from a caprificus or wild fig-tree, Varr. L. L. 6, § 18 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 11; Aus. Ecl. Fer. Rom. 9.