Segetia

A Roman divinity, who, together with Setia or Seja and Semonia, was invoked by the early Italians at seed time, for Segetia, like the two other names, is connected with sero and seges.

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References

Sources

  • Augustine. City of God iv, 8; comp. Tertullian. De spectaculis, 8.
  • Macrobius. Saturnalia i, 16.
  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xviii, 2.2.
  • 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.