Larunda

or Lara, a daughter of Almon, was a nymph who denounced to Juno that there was some connexion between Jupiter and Juturna; hence her name is connected with λαλεῖν. Jupiter punished her by depriving her of her tongue, and condemning her to be conducted into the lower world by Mercury ;but on the way thither Mercury fell in love with her, and afterwards she gave birth to two Lares. (Ov. Fast. 2.599, &c.; Auson. Monosyll. de Diis, 9.) Hartung (Die Relig. der Röm. ii. p. 204) infers from Lactantius (1.20) that Larunda is identical with Muta and Tacita. [L.S]

or Lara. Daughter of Almon, the nymph who informed Iuno of the connection between Iupiter and Iuturna: hence her name was connected with λαλεῖν. Iupiter deprived her of her tongue, and ordered Mercury to conduct her into the lower world. On the way thither Mercury fell in love with her, and she afterwards gave birth to two Lares (Ovid, Fasti, ii. 599 foll.; Macrob. i. 7, 34). See Lares.