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"Iuno" is giving utterance to all kinds of alarming threats, and, while disclaiming them to "Sampsiceramus," makes an open avowal and parade of them to others.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How you rouse my curiosity as to what Bibulus says, as to your conversation with "Iuno," and even as to your "fast" dinner party!
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Clodius himself, by the agency of "Iuno," [270] how far they are acting in good faith -- we shall escape molestation, or at any rate not be left under a delusion.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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She is "Iuno" perhaps as an enemy -- as Bacon called the Duchess of Burgundy Henry VII. 's Iuno -- or perhaps for a less decent reason, as
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Iuno in Samos, to Bacchus in India, and at Thebes: to Isis, and
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Pallas_ for gouernement, and _Iuno_ in all honour and regall magnificence.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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For to say that _Iupiter_ was sonne to _Saturne_, and that he maried his owne sister _Iuno_, might be true, for such was the guise of all great Princes in the Orientall part of the world both at those dayes and now is.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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_An honourable woman with childe, vnto whome Jupiter shewed himselfe (as he was wont With Iuno) in thunder and lightning: insomuch, as shee fell all to ashes, out of the which was taken vp a younge infant.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Their mother then ioyfull for that fact, and of the reputation of her sonnes, kneeled downe before the Image of Iuno, humbly beseechinge her to giue her sonnes the thinge that were best for a man to attaine vnto.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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But far more prominently -- either as a female divinity herself, or, as some think, owing to the supposed influence of the moon on female life -- does Iuno figure as the deity of women, and especially in association with childbirth and marriage.
The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914
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