Minucia
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Minuciae Proper-name noun: feminine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: feminine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: feminine dative singular, Proper-name noun: feminine vocative plural of Minucia
Minuciae Proper-name adjective: feminine genitive singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine vocative plural, Proper-name adjective: feminine dative singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine nominative plural of Minucius
one of the Vestal priestesses in B. C. 337. Her passion for gay attire made her conduct suspected. On inquiry, suspicion was justified, and Minucia was buried alive. (Liv. 8.15.) [W.B.D]
was originally, in some of its branches at least, patrician [Augurinus]; but more frequently occurs in history as a plebeian house. Its principal cognomens were Augurinus, Basilus, Rufus, and Thermus. Minicius and Municius are frequently confounded with Minicius. The following coin of the Minucia gens bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse Jupiter in a chariot hurling a thunder-bolt, with the legend L. Minusius. Who this L. Minucius was is unknown.
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