BONA DEA

The Popular Encyclopedia or Conversation Lexicon · 1874 · p. 280

a name given by the Latins to Fauna or Fatua. She was so chaste that no man SAW lier after her marri.ige but her husband, for which reason her fcr^tivols were celebrated by ui^ht A in privftie hotues, and all statues of men were veiled during the ceremony. By the Greeks the Bona Dea wad' identified with Hecate, Semele, or other divinities. 280