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JUVENTAS

Volume 12 · 70 words · 1842 Edition

in Mythology, the goddess who presided over youth amongst the Romans. This goddess was long honoured in the capitol, where Servius Tullius erected a statue to her. Near the chapel of Minerva there was the altar of Juventas, and upon this altar a picture of Proserpine. The Greeks called the goddess of youth Hebe; but it has been generally supposed that this was not the same with the Roman Juventas.