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Ἐν μυρίοισι τὰ καλὰ γίγνεται πόνοις → Magni est laboris, quicquid est pulchri uspiam → Das Schöne formt in tausendfältgen Mühen sich

Menander, Monostichoi, 176

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Rūmīna: (in some MSS. Rūmĭa), ae,f. rumis, qs. she that offers her breast,
I a Roman goddess of nursing mothers, who was worshipped in a separate temple near the fig-tree under which Romulus and Remus had sucked the breast (rumis) of the shewolf, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 5; id. ap. Non. 167, 30 sq. (v. the passages under rumis); Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 11; 6, 19 fin.; 7, 11.—Hence,
   A Rūmīnālis, e, adj.: ficus, the fig-tree of Romulus and Remus, Liv. 1,4,5 (where,from a false etymology, the earlier form is said to have been Rumularis, Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 90: alii a Romulo velint dictam quasi Romularem); Tac. A. 13, 58; Aur. Vict. Orig. 20 fin.; Fest. p. 270 Müll.; cf. id. p. 400 ib.; Serv. 1. 1.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 54 Müll.—By poet. license, it is also called,
   B Rūmĭna ficus, Ov. F. 2, 412 (where, as above in Liv., from a false etymology, a pretended older form, Romula, is given).
Rūmĭna: ficus, v. 1. Rumina, B.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Rūmīna, v. Rumia.

Latin > German (Georges)

Rūmina (in Hdschrn. auch Rūmia), ae, f. (rumis), die Göttin der Säugenden bei den Römern, die in einem besonderen Tempel in der Nähe des Feigenbaumes verehrt wurde, unter dem der Sage nach eine Wölfin den Romulus u. Remus genährt hatte, Varro r. r. 2, 11, 5. Augustin. de civ. dei 4, 11. p. 161, 6 D2. u.a. – Dav. Rūmīnālis ficus, der Feigenbaum des Romulus u. Remus, Varro LL. 5, 54. Plin. 15, 77. Liv. 1, 4, 5 (nach dem er früher Rominalis ficus hieß): ebenso Ruminalis arbor, Nipperd. Tac. ann. 13, 58; u. Rūmina ficus, Ov. fast. 2, 412 (nach dem er früher Romula ficus hieß).