Opigena

The midwife, an epithet of Juno, under which she was venerated by Roman matrons because she was believed to aid them in birth (Opigenam Junonem matronae colebant, quod ferre eam opem in partu laborantibus credebant).

References

Sources

  • Festus, xiii, p. 305.
  • Martianus Capella, ii, 149.