Marica

A Latin nymph who was worshiped at Minturnae, and to whom a grove was sacred on the river Liris. She was said to be the mother of Latinus by Faunus.1 Servius2 remarks that some considered her to be identical with Aphrodite and others with Circe.

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid vii, 47.
  2. on Virgil, l.c. and xii, 164.

Source

  • 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.