I.the goddess Juno, daughter of Saturn, sister and wife of Jupiter, and the guardian deity of women; as the foundress of marriage, she is also called pronuba Juno; and as the protecting goddess of lying-in women, Juno Lucina, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 11; Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68: prima et Tellus et pronuba Juno dant signum, Verg. A. 4, 166.—
B. Juno inferna or infera, i. e. Proserpine, Verg. A. 6, 138; Stat. S. 2, 1, 147; “or, Averna,” Ov. M. 14, 114; “or, profunda,” Claud. Proserp. 1, 2; “or, Stygia,” Stat. Th. 4, 526.—
II. Esp. in phrases; “stella Junonis,” the planet Venus, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37: “urbs Junonis,” i. e. Argos, Ov. H. 14, 28: “per Junonem matrem familias jurare,” Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 201.—Prov.: “Junonis sacra ferre,” i. e. to walk at a slow and measured pace, Hor. S. 1, 3, 11.—
B. Comically transf.: “mea Juno, non decet esse te tam tristem tuo Jovi,” i. e. my wife, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 14; cf.: “ni nanctus Venerem essem, hanc Junonem ducerem,” id. Bacch. 2, 2, 39: ejuno as interj. like ecastor, acc. to Charis. p. 183 P.—Hence,
2. Jūnōnĭcŏla , ae, com. Junocolo, a worshipper of Juno (poet.): “Adde Junonicolas Faliscos,” Ov. F. 6, 49.—
3. Jūnōnĭgĕna , ae, m. Juno-gigno, Junoborn, i. e. Vulcan, Ov. M. 4, 173.—
4. Jū-nōnĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Juno, Junonian (poet.): “hospitia,” i. e. Carthage, where Juno was worshipped, Verg. A. 1,671; so, “Samos,” Ov. M. 8, 220: “ales,” i. e. the peacock, id. Am. 2, 6, 55: “custos,” i. e. Argus, id. M. 1, 678: “mensis,” i. e. June, sacred to Juno, id. F. 6, 61: “Hebe,” i. e. the daughter of Juno, id. M. 9, 400; Val. Fl. 8, 231: “stella,” the planet Venus, App. de Mund. p. 58, 12: “insula,” one of the Fortunate Isles, Plin. 6, 32, 37, § 202.
