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LUCINA

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCINA  , goddess of

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light, a
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title given to
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Juno and
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Diana as presiding over childbirth and bringing
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children into the light of the
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world . The full name is lucina dea, " the light-bringing goddess " (lux, light, hence adj. lucinus) . It is also given to
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Hecate (
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Tibullus 3 . 4 . 13), as the bringer of terrible dreams, and is used metaphorically as a synonym for
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child-
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birth (Virg . Georg. iii . 6o;
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Ovid, Ars . Amat. iii . 785) .

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