god
Iuventas
also: Iuventas, Iuventatis, Juventas
Roman goddess of youth (the equivalent of the Greek Hebe), with a temple on the Capitol. Cicero notes at Att. 1.18.3 that her annual rites went unperformed in early 60 BC, an ill omen for the year.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.18 §3 the annual rites of Iuventas
The yearly sacrifices to Iuventas, goddess of youth, here neglected. Cicero uses the lapse as a sour omen opening the year, then pivots to the scandal of Memmius and Lucullus's wife.
- Brutus §73 Games of Youth
Ludi Iuventatis: games in honour of Iuventas, goddess of youth, vowed by M. Livius Salinator at the battle of the Metaurus (207 BC). Cited here as a date for a play of Livius Andronicus.