Good Deity, Bona Dea

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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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Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§4.3.3  a meal to greet it with the words, 'To the Good Deity !' but when the cup is passed around after the -1000
Ovid, Art of Love§3.240  at your threshold, or always have it done at Bona Dea ’s fertile temple. I was once suddenly announced arriving at -1000
Ovid, Art of Love§3.630  companions cannot go, when male eyes are banned from Bona Dea ’s temple, except those she orders to enter? When, with -1000
Livy, History of Rome§37.9  robes who announced that they were the ministers of Mater Dea, the Mother of the Gods, and it was at -190
Plutarch, Cicero§Cic.19.4  mysterious rites to a goddess whom the Romans call Bona Dea, and the Greeks, Gynaeceia. [5] Sacrifice is offered to -63
Cicero, Letters to Atticus§Att.2.4  shall have made certain how that 'priest of the Bona Dea ' intends to behave. Meanwhile I shall find my pleasure -59
Cicero, On his House§40  present when a sacrifice was being offered to the Bona Dea? No one; not even that great man who became -57
Cicero, Letters to his Friends§Fam.1.9  rites, who had shown no more respect for the Bona Dea than for his three sisters, secured immunity by the votes -54
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§11.70  A stout lepaste, which, when full, they drain To the Good Deity, raising loud his praises, As chirps a grasshopper upon -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  them asked for wine, some demanding the Cup of the Good Deity, others that of Health, and different people invoking different -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  play he mentions mixing a cup in honour of the Good Deity, as do nearly all the poets of the old -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  speaks thus — Fill a cup quickly now to the Good Deity, And take away this table from before me; For -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  eaten quite enough; — I pledge This cup to the Good Deity; — here, quick, I say, And take away this -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  I begin to nod my head, The cup to the Good Deity That cup, when I had drain'd it, near upset me; -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.47  Meliboea, says — Before he'd drunk a cup to the Good Deity, Or to great Zeus the Saviour. -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.48  banquet, which they call the pledge-cup in honour of the Good Deity, they offer in small quantities, as if reminding the -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.48  as a sort of sample of the power of the Good Deity, but that all the rest of the wine should -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.48  Nurses of Dionysos.' And that when the pledge-cup to the Good Deity was handed round, it was customary to remove the tables, -1
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists§15.48  Dionysius, standing before it, and drinking a pledge-cup to the Good Deity, ordered the table to be removed. But among the -1
Scriptores Historia Augusta, Life of Hadrian§19  banks of the Tiber, and the temple of the Bona Dea. 12 With the aid of the architect Decrianus he 125
Ammianus Marcellinus, History§22.13.3  feet of the statue a little silver image of the Dea Caelestis, which he always carried with him wherever he went, 362
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