Praestana
"Excelled the might of all." A goddess of excellence who was worshiped because, in throwing the javelin, Quirinus had excelled all in strength: Praestana est, ut perhibetis, dicta, quod Quirinus in jaculi missione cunctorum praestiterit viribus.
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References
Sources
- Arnobius, iv, 128.
- Tertullian. Ante-Nicene Fathers vi, 3.