Juga

Or Jugalis, that is, the goddess of marriage, occurs as a surname of Juno, in the same sense as the Greek Zygia (ζυγία). She had a temple under this name in the Forum at Rome, below the capitol, and the street which there took its commencement was called Vicus Jugarius.

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References

Sources

  • Augustine. City of God iv, 8, 11; vi, 9.
  • Festus, p. 104 (ed. Müller).
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.