Orbona

A female Roman divinity, to whom an altar was erected at Rome, near the temple of the Lares in the Via Sacra. She was invoked by parents who had been deprived of their children, and desired to have others, and also in dangerous maladies of children.

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References

Sources

  • Arnobius. Adversus Nationes iv, 7.
  • Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods iii, 25.
  • P. Victor. De Regionibus Urbis Romae x.
  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia ii, 7.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Tertullian, ii, 14.

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