matrona

Two facts concerning the partera or matrona are remarkable when considered together: practically every child in Mexico, at least well into the nineteenth century, was delivered by a midwife, and yet we know almost nothing about them.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Throughout most of the colonial period, the partera or matrona was free to practice and her role in assisting women with childbirth was rarely questioned by the Protomedicato.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Stilicho, whose short narrow tunic and breeches proclaim his barbarian origins, stands leaning on a shield while curling the fingers of his other hand around a long spear.29 It is a portrait of assured combined authority: Serena the traditional Roman matrona holding a plucked bloom in her hand as a symbol of her guardianship of the fertility of the state, Stilicho the hard-nosed military protector at the ready.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Sadly the second invisible cow that wandered through ate the top of the Sedum matrona.

The Prettiest Thing « Fairegarden 2009

/III Congreso Internacional de Matronas: 'matrona, mujer, ...

CIT Conference in NYC 2008

Hope you can get your hands on a matrona, they are easily divided to make more.

New Design-Daylily Hill Edge « Fairegarden 2008

"Ut matrona meretrici dispar erit atque discolor."

Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets John Beames

The same situation similarly described at _Fast_ I 81-82 'iamque noui praeeunt fasces, noua purpura fulget,/et noua conspicuum pondera sentit ebur'; compare as well _Med Fac_ 13 'matrona _premens altum_ rubicunda sedile' and _Met_ V 317 'factaque de uiuo _pressere_ sedilia saxo'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Beza alludes to her as "matrona quædam et genere et pietate valde nobilis, fidem ad extremum usque spiritum professa signis omnibus, quum, abscisa lingua et _ardente face pudendis ipsius turpissime ac crudelissime injecta_, torreretur."

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

With the Romans, _mater_ and its derivative _matrona, _ came to be applied as titles of honour; and beside the rites of the

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain