- Bubona
In
Roman mythology , Bubona was a goddess, thenumen of oxen. [cite book |title=The New American Cyclopaedia |last=Ripley |first=George |coauthors=Dana, Charles Anderson |year=1859 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |pages=v. 4 p. 32 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hmtMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA32&dq=Bubona+goddess+-inauthor:augustine&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0 ] Her name is known from of the bookThe City of God by Saint Augustine:But as they knew that such things are granted to no one, except by some god freely bestowing them, they called the gods whose names they did not find out by the names of those things which they deemed to be given by them; sometimes slightly altering the name for that purpose, as, for example, from war they have named Bellona, not bellum; from cradles, Cunina, not cunæ; from standing corn, Segetia, not seges; from apples, Pomona, not pomum; from oxen, Bubona, not bos.
and again in :
:Without Segetia they had harvests; without Bubona, oxen; honey without Mellona; apples without Pomona: and, in a word, everything for which the Romans thought they must supplicate so great a crowd of false gods, they received much more happily from the one true God.
There are no inscriptions to Bubona listed in the Clauss/Slaby Epigraphic Database.
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