Ops

( opis ), a daughter of Cœlus and Terra, the same as the Rhea of the Greeks, who married Saturn, and became mother of Jupiter. She was known among the ancients by the different names of Cybele , Bona Dea , Magna Mater , Thya , Tellus , Proser pin a , and even of Juno and Minerva ; and the worship which was paid to these apparently several deities was offered merely to one and the same person, mother of the gods. The word Ops seems to be derived from Opus ; because the godde , who is the same as the earth, gives nothing without labour . Tatius built her a temple at Rome. She was generally represented as a matron, with her right hand opened, as if offering a istance to the helple , and holding a loaf in her left hand. Her festivals were called Opalia , . Varro , de Lingua Latina , bk. 4 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 2 , . — Tibullus , poem 4, li. 68 .— Pliny , bk. 19 , ch. 6 .