Carmenta

Others say she was the wife of Evander, the Arcadian, being a prophetess, and wont to deliver her oracles in verse, and from carmen, a verse, was called Carmenta; her proper name being Nicostrata.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

So instead, I signed up for a live online formal course in Latin, the Carmenta Online Latin Classroom.

Why Latin? « The Half-Baked Maker 2009

Under the name of Carmenta she invented all the letters in between.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

Others more probably derive Carmenta from carens mente, or insane, in allusion to her prophetic frenzies.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This Carmenta some think a deity presiding over human birth; for which reason she is much honored by mothers.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

A temple was erected to Carmenta on the Capitoline Hill, and a festival, called the Carmentalia, was celebrated in her honour on the 11th of

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

They were four in number, the best known of whom are Carmenta and

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

C. [401] The Carpentum was a carriage, commonly with two wheels, and an arched covering, but sometimes without a covering; used chiefly by matrons, and named, according to Ovid, from Carmenta, the mother of

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

At _Fast_ I 531-34 Ovid uses the same metaphor, as here, of Tiberius 'accession to power: (Carmenta is prophesying Rome's future)' et penes

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Carmenta was celebrated as being the mother of Evander, who led an Arcadian colony into Italy, and founded a town on the river Tiber, which became afterwards incorporated with the city of Rome.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens