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  • When our countrymen sacrificed to their goddess [808] Vacuna, and sat tippling by their

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vacuna, dea Cloacina, there was a goddess of idleness, a goddess of the draught, or jakes, Prema, Premunda, Priapus, bawdy gods, and gods for all [2826] offices.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vacuna is a Sabine goddess, identified with Victoria: near the village an inscription has been found which was erected by Vespasian, 'Aedem

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The famous Vacuna of Reate, for example, never left her home in the Apennines, possibly because she was

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • [586] For Vacuna, Wissowa, _R. K._ pp. 44 and 128.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • One more echo this name wakes in Horatian ears -- he dates a letter to his friend Aristius Fuscus as written "behind the crumbling shrine of Vacuna."

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • Vacuna was the ancient name for the goddess Victory; and against the wall is fixed an exhumed tablet telling how the Emperor Vespasian here restored an ancient Temple of

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • Rocca Giovane, a ruined village in the hills, half an hour's walk from the vineyard where the pavement is shown, does seem to be the site of the fane of Vacuna, and an inscription found there tells that this temple of the Sabine Victory was repaired by Vespasian.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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