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See also:JUVENTAS (Latin for " youth " : later Juventus) , in See also:Roman See also:mythology, the tutelar goddess of See also:young men . She was worshipped at See also:Rome from very See also:early times . In the front See also:court of the See also:temple of See also:Minerva on the Capitol there was a See also:chapel of See also:Juventas, in which a See also:coin had to be deposited by each youth on his See also:assumption of the toga virilis, and sacrifices were offered on behalf of the rising manhood of the See also:state . In connexion with this chapel it is related that, when the temple was in course of erection, See also:Terminus, the See also:god of boundaries, and Juventas refused to quit the sites they had already appropriated as sacred to themselves, which accordingly became See also:part of the new See also:sanctuary . This was interpreted as a sign of the immovable boundaries and eternal youth of the Roman state . It should be observed that in the See also:oldest accounts there is no mention of Juventas, whose name (with that of See also:Mars) was added in support of the augural prediction . After the Second Punic See also:War See also:Greek elements were introduced into her cult . In 218 B.C., by See also:order of the Sibylline books, a See also:lectisternium was prepared for Juventas and a public thanks-giving to See also:Hercules, an association which shows the See also:influence of the Greek See also:Hebe, the wife of Heracles . In 207 See also:Marcus Livius Salinator, after the defeat of See also:Hasdrubal at the See also:battle of Sena, vowed another temple to Juventas in the See also:Circus See also:Maximus, which was dedicated in 191 by C . (or M.) See also:Licinius See also:Lucullus; it was destroyed by See also:fire in 16 B.c. and rebuilt by See also:Augustus . In imperial times, Juventas personified, not the youth of the Roman state, but of the future See also:emperor . See See also:Dion . Halic., iii . 69, iv . 15; See also:Livy v . 54, xxi . 62, See also:xxxvi . 36 . |
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