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| − | Roman goddess, usually called Mens Bona. Her temple was on the Capitoline in Rome and June 8th the ''dies natalis'' celebrated.
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| − | :for the Romans a concept could be so great that it could only come from a god. They might not know the name of the god so the concept itself became the god's name.<ref>Cicero, ''De natura deorum'' II.61</ref>
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| − | Mens is an attribute, without which the Roman people and the state could not prosper: call it practical wisdom and prudence in government and affairs. The military disaster of Trasimene resulted in the Libri Sibyllini being consulted. The result was a temple to Mens, vowed by the praetor T. Otacilius Crassus in 217 B.C.E. It was built on the Capitoline. The foundation day, dies natalis, is June 8th.
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| − | From coinage and finds in Paestum, the cult statue was that of a seated women reading a scroll in her lap.
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| − | Schilling in his excellent study on the cults of Venus, discusses the 2 vowed temples; one to Venus Eryx and the other to Mens, they were separated only by a drainage ditch. He contends that Dea Mens really is an aspect of Venus, and this has been accepted by scholars.
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| − | * Mario Melo "''Mens Bona''"
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| − | * Robert Schilling "''La Religion Romaine de Vénus''"
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| − | * J.Rufus Fears "''The Cult of Virtues''"
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Revision as of 01:01, 14 March 2011
