Unxia
A surname of Juno. A Roman woman would anoint the threshold or door-post of her future home before entering the house so that nothing evil would cross. A barren heifer was sacrificed to Unxia.
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References
Sources
- Arnobius. Adversus Nationes iii, 25; vii, 21.
- Martianus Capella, ii, 149.