ἱστορίαι Historiai
Plut. Mor., Roman Questions 77 — Roman Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim
Question 77. Why are they of an opinion that the year is Jupiter’s, but the months Juno’s? Solution. Is it because Jupiter and Juno reign over the invisible Gods, who are no otherwise seen but by the eyes of our understanding, but the Sun and Moon over the visible? And the Sun verily causeth the year, and the Moon the months. Neither ought we to think that they are bare images of them, but the Sun is Jupiter himself materially, and the Moon Juno herself materially. Therefore they name her Juno (a juvenescendo, the name signifying a thing that is new or grows young) from the nature of the Moon; and they call her Lucina (as it were bright or shining), and they are of opinion that she helps women in their travail-pains. Whence is that of the poets: By azure leaven beset with stars, By th’ moon that hastens births; for they suppose that women have the easiest travail at the full of the moon.

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Roman Questions, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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