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Meanings of bona dea in English
Roman deity of chastity, fertility, and healing; brought from Magna Græcia during the early/middle Republic; her rites let women use strong wine and do blood-sacrifice (things otherwise forbidden to women); men were barred from her mysteries.
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Usage of bona dea in English
1
The Romans kept serpents in the Temples of Bona Dea and Æsculapius.
2
She is sometimes said to be another name for Bona Dea.
3
Bona Dea, the name of the Mysteries of Rome, 625-u.
4
But we must not profane the mysteries of Bona Dea.
5
Here is the Bona Dea, the divinity of the mountains, the great mother of Syria!
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Bona Dea, a Roman divinity of fertility.
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"Please, take these as an offering to the Bona Dea," he pleaded.
8
The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may be derived from the secret rites of the Bona Dea.
9
'Beloved Bona Dea,' replied Jove, 'calm yourself!'
10
He does outrage to a bona Dea: she to the monasticism of the Court of Law: and he and she awaken unhallowed emotions.
11
In Rome these mysteries took another name and were called "the rites of Bona Dea," which was but another name for Ceres.
12
The ceremonies connected with the phallus, and those observed in the worship of the Bona Dea, were of a nature that no virtue could withstand.
Translations for bona dea
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