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

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Lucīna

The goddess of light (lux), or rather the goddess that brings to light, and hence the goddess that presides over the birth of children. It was therefore used as a surname of both Iuno and Diana. Lucina corresponded to the Greek goddess Ilithyia (q.v.). See Hor. Carm. Saec. 15.

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

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