Dea meaning

On the second and principal day of the festival the ceremonies were conducted in the grove of the Dea Dia.

Besides the Aurunci and the dea Marica and;the intempestaeque Graviscae (Virg.

BONA DEA, the "good goddess," an old Roman deity of fruitfulness, both in the earth and in women.

Lucian's De Dea Syria, § 48; for " bees," &c., as titles of sacred attendants, see J.

Thus we hear of temples dedicated to Juventas=Hebe (191 B.C.), Diana=Artemis (179 B.C.), Mars=Ares (138 B.C.), and find even such unexpected identifications as that of the Bona Dea - a cult title of the ancient Fauna, the female counterpart of the countryside numen Faunus - with a Greek goddess of women, Damia.