Opening the library…
Ad Nationes
Tertullian
And you are not content to assert the divinity of such as
Efflagitant cœlo et sanciunt, (i.e., “they insist on deifying.”)
Comp. Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9.
A name of Juno, in reference to her office to mothers, “quia eam sanguinis fluorem in conceptu retinere putabant.” Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iii. 2.
Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, vii. 2, 3.
Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.
Such as Lucina, Partula, Nona, Decima, Alemona.
Or, Prorsa.
“Quæ infantes in cunis (in their cradle) tuetur.” Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.
Educatrix; Augustine says: “Ipse levet de terra et vocetur dea Levana” (de Civ. Dei, iv. 11).
From the old word ruma, a teat.
Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 9, 11, 36.
See also Tertullian’s de Anima, xxxix.; and Augustine’s de Civ. Dei, iv. 21, where the god has the masculine name of Statilinus.
See Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9 and vii. 3.
Ibid. iv. 21, vii. 3.
Ibid. iv. 21.
Ibid. iv. 11, vii. 22.
Ibid. iv. 11. [N.B.—Augustine’s borrowing from our author.]
Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 3.
Augustine, de Civ. Dei. [iv. 11 and 16] mentions Agenoria.
On Fortuna Barbata, see Augustine, de Civ. Dei, iv. 11, where he also names Consus and Juventa.
Tertullian, in Apol. xxv. sarcastically says, “Sterculus, and Mutunus, and Larentina, have raised the empire to its present height.”
Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 7, 11; August. de Civ. Dei, vi. 9.
For these three gods, see Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9; and Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 7.