A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

and RUMI'NA, three Roman genii, who were worshipped as the protectors of infants sleeping in their cradles, and to whom libations of milk were offered. Cunae signifies a cradle, and ruma or rumis was in ancient Latin the same as mamma, a mother's breast. (August. de Civit. Dei, 4.10, &c.; Lactant. 1.20, 36; Varro, apud Non. p. 167, apud Donat. ad Terent. Phorm. i. 1. 14.)

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