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Carmenta

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Carmenta
one of Camenae; protectress of women in confinement. [Rom. Rel.: Zimmerman, 50]

Carmenta
goddess of healing. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 53]
See : Medicine


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La profetessa e ninfa delle acque Carmenta, madre di Evandro, stando sulle sue rive avrebbe avuto la visione deila nascita, su quelle rive, della citta (Ovidio, Fasti I: 509-14).
Four of the insects (the flower-feeding weevil, Coelocephalapion pigrae, the twig and stem-mining moths, Neurostrota gunniella and Carmenta mimosa, and the seed feeding beetle, Acantkoscelides puniceus) are flourishing and reducing the density and spread of mimosa.
Mattie Tynan was the toast of the bookmakers after his home-bred Uptomeeyes sprang a 50-1 shock in the one-mile two-year-old maiden from which the favourite, Carmenta, was withdrawn at the start after refusing to load.
 
 
 
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