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Cā^prōtīna

Cā^prōtīna · f

a surname of Juno at Rome

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What it meant

1. Cā^prōtīna — Lewis & Short

Cā^prōtīna, ae, f.,

I a surname of Juno at Rome, in whose honor an annual feast was held on the Nonae Caprotinae, July 17, to commemorate the delivery of Rome from the Gauls by slaves who gave warning from a caprificus or wild fig-tree, Varr. L. L. 6, § 18 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 11; Aus. Ecl. Fer. Rom. 9.

2. Caprötina — Walde–Hofmann

Caprötina, Beiname der Juno, abgeleitet aus den Nónae Caprötinae, einem am 7. Juli in Rom und Latium begangenen Frauenfest (seit Varro, inschr. und Plut. auch Caprat-): von caper, capra auf Grund eines *caprötus (vgl. aegrotus); nach den Alten spielte der Feigenbaum (caprifieus) dabei eine Rolle; s. darüber und über die Ziege als Zeichen der Fruchtbarkeit im Kulte der Juno Wissowa PW. III 1551 f£, Rel.? 184, Otto … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Caprötina, p. 194]

Where it came from

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