THis Goddesse, which is so famous by the name of Bona dea, is the globe of the earth, which is there∣fore ••earmed Bona dea, the good goddesse, because we reape so many good things from the earth. She is cal∣led also Ops the helping goddesse ab ope, from helpe, be∣cause by her helpe we liue. Shee is called Fatua, and Fauna .i. the goddesse of speech, because young children doe ne∣ver speake vntill they are able to goe, and so haue touched the earth. The Grecians called her 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the fe∣mal goddesse, because that no male might bee admitted to her sacrifices; ••ay the very pictures of men were at that time to be covered. The inner roome, where her sacrifices were, was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the place for womens assem∣blies. q 1.1 Those that were chiefe in these sacrifices were the Vestall Nunnes. This good goddesse was supposed to bee the wife of Faunus, and vpon a time to haue beene taken drunke with wine by him, for which fault Faunus is said to haue beaten her to death with roddes of mirtle tree. But afterward being sory for that he had done, in amends hee made her a goddesse: and as it were ever after detesting the mirtle-tree, he allowing all other hearbs, and flowers to be vsed in these sacrifices, for bad the mirtle-tree. Some say she was so chast, that shee never was seene by any man but her husband, and in respect of his chastitie the mirtle-tree is forbid, because it was consecrated to Ʋenus. But where∣as in this sacrifice they vsed wine, they called it not by the
Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
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name of wine, but milke or hony:r 1.2 whence they called the vessell wherein the wine was put, amphoram mellariam .i. the hony vessell. This sacrifice became very famous by rea∣sō of Clodius, who being in loue with Pompeia, Iulius Cae∣sars wife came vnto these sacrifices in womans apparell, & was found out by Aurelia, Iulius Caesars mother. This Clodius became so infamous for this, and other his adulte∣rous prancks, that hee occasioned a common proverbe a∣mongst the Romans, Clodius accusat moechos, answerable to which our English saying is, One theefe accuseth another.
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q 1.1
Cic. orat. de Arusp. respō∣sis.
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r 1.2
Alex. Gen. dier. l. 6. c. 8.