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[50] Boys were named always on the ninth day after the birth, and girls
on the eighth.
[51] From Pavorema vertendo.
[52] She had a temple at Home which always stood open.
[53] She had a temple without the walls.
[54] Murcia had her temple on Mount Aventine.
[55] From _abeo_, to go away; and _adeo_, to come.
[56] The festival of this goddess was in September, when the Romans
drank new wine mixed with old, by way of physic.
[57] From _vitulo_, to leap or advance.
[58] From _voluptas_, pleasure.
[59] In a great murrain which destroyed their cattle, the Romans invoked
this goddess, and she removed the plague.
[60] The image was a head without a body. Horace mentions her (Lib. 1.
Epist. XVI. 60). She had a temple without the walls, which gave the name
to the Porta Lavernalis.
[61] The goddess of eloquence, or persuasion, who had always a great
hand in the success of courtship.
[62] She was also called Cinxia Juno.
[63] She was an old Sabine deity. Some make her the same with Ceres; but
Varro imagines her to be the goddess of victory.


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