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Mater Matuta

Name: Lucretius Entire
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Author: Titus Lucretius Carus

Matuta

also: Matuta, the Dawn

The Roman goddess of the dawn; in Lucretius she is the dawn itself, spreading rosy light through the coasts of the sky.

Reading notes

On the Nature of Things §5.38 Matuta
Mater Matuta, Roman goddess of dawn; here the dawn itself, spreading rosy light through the sky.

On the Nature of Things poem · 2 mentions