The corpus record — Latin

ŏpĭgĕna

ŏpĭgĕna · f

the midwife

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What it meant

ŏpĭgĕna — Lewis & Short

ŏpĭgĕna, ae, f.Ops-gigno,

I the midwife, an epithet of Juno, as the tutelar goddess of lying-in women, Mart. Cap. 2, § 149; cf.: Opigenam Junonem matronae colebant, quod ferre eam opem in partu laborantibus credebant, Fest. p. 200 Müll.

Where it came from

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