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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

JUNO'NES. Fairies or guardian spirits of the female sex, one of which was believed to be born with every female, to attend and watch over her through life, and expire with her at her decease, precisely as the GENIUS with males. They are represented as young girls, with the wings of a bat or a moth, and entirely draped, as shown by the annexed example (Junones/1.1) from a Pompeian painting; whereas the male spirit was usually represented naked or nearly so, and with the wings of a bird. Plin. H. N. ii. 5. Senec. Ep. 110. Tibull. iv. 6. 1.

  • Junones/1.1
    Junones/1.1

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