Ge'nitrix
that is, "the mother," is used by Ovid (
Ov. Met. 14.536) as a surname of Cybele, in the place of
mater, or
magna mater, but it is better known, in the religious history of Rome, as a surname of Venus, to whom J. Caesar dedicated a temple at Rome, as the mother of the Julia gens. (
Suet. Jul. 61,
78,
84;
Serv. ad Aen. 1.724.)
In like manner, Elissa (Dido), the founder of Carthage, i s called Genitrix. (
Sil. Ital. 1.81.)
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