Crossword-Solution: RUMINA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Quosdam tamen caelibes relinquimus, quasi condicio defecerit, praesertim cum quaedam viduae sint, ut Populonia vel Fulgora et diva Rumina; quibus non miror petitorem defuisse._” In this passage the marriage of Venus to Vulcan is probably Greek; all the rest is pure Roman.

The fact reported by Plutarch,[60] that milk, not wine, was offered in the cult of Rumina, is quite in accord with the principles of sympathetic magic.

Like as therefore we name in our Greeke language those milch nourses that suckle yoong infants at their brests, _Thelona_, being a word derived of _Thele_, which signifieth a pap; even so this goddesse _Rumina_, which is as much to say, as Nurse, and one that taketh the care and charge of nourishing and rearing up of infants, admitteth not in her sacrifices any wine; for that it is hurtfull to the nouriture of little babes and sucklings.

Examples of such objects are the oak of Jupiter Feretrius, the sacred fig-tree of Rumina, the stone of Terminus with its buried sacrifice, and the wolf, the wood-pecker, and spear of Mars.