Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Monēta

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A name given to Iuno (q.v.) as the goddess of good counsel (from moneo), under which

Iuno Moneta.

title a temple was built to her on the Capitol. Attached to it was the mint (Livy, vii. 28), which on this account received the name of moneta.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)