Iuno

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

Jūno, ōnis, f.,

I the goddess Juno, daughter of Saturn, sister and wife of Jupiter, and the guardian deity of women; as the foundress of marriage, she is also called pronuba Juno; and as the protecting goddess of lying-in women , Juno Lucina, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 11; Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68: prima et Tellus et pronuba Juno dant signum, Verg. A. 4, 166.—

B Juno inferna or infera, i. e. Proserpine , Verg. A. 6, 138; Stat. S. 2, 1, 147; or, Averna, Ov. M. 14, 114; or, profunda, Claud. Proserp. 1, 2; or, Stygia, Stat. Th. 4, 526.—

II Esp. in phrases; stella Junonis, the planet Venus , Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37: urbs Junonis, i. e. Argos , Ov. H. 14, 28: per Junonem matrem familias jurare, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 201.—Prov.: Junonis sacra ferre, i. e. to walk at a slow and measured pace , Hor. S. 1, 3, 11.—

B Comically transf.: mea Juno, non decet esse te tam tristem tuo Jovi, i. e. my wife , Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 14; cf.: ni nanctus Venerem essem, hanc Junonem ducerem, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 39: ejuno as interj. like ecastor, acc. to Charis. p. 183 P.—Hence,

1 Jūnōnālis , e, adj., of or belonging to Juno : tempus, i. e. the month of June , Ov. F. 6, 63.—

2 Jūnōnĭcŏla , ae, com. [Junocolo], a worshipper of Juno (poet.): Adde Junonicolas Faliscos, Ov. F. 6, 49.—

3 Jūnōnĭgĕna , ae, m. [Juno-gigno], Junoborn , i. e. Vulcan , Ov. M. 4, 173.—

4 Jū-nōnĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Juno, Junonian (poet.): hospitia, i. e. Carthage, where Juno was worshipped , Verg. A. 1,671; so, Samos, Ov. M. 8, 220: ales, i. e. the peacock , id. Am. 2, 6, 55: custos, i. e. Argus , id. M. 1, 678: mensis, i. e. June, sacred to Juno , id. F. 6, 61: Hebe, i. e. the daughter of Juno , id. M. 9, 400; Val. Fl. 8, 231: stella, the planet Venus , Ap. de Mund. p. 58, 12: insula, one of the Fortunate Isles , Plin. 6, 32, 37, § 202.

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