Rumina

Rūmīna (in some MSS. Rūmĭa), ae,f. [rumis, qs. she that offers her breast],

• a Roman goddess of nursing mothers, who was worshipped in a separate temple near the fig-tree under which Romulus and Remus had sucked the breast (rumis) of the she-wolf, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 5; id. ap. Non. 167, 30 sq. (v. the passages under rumis); Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 11; 6, 19 fin.; 7, 11.—Hence,
• • A Rūmīnālis, e, adj.: ficus, the fig-tree of Romulus and Remus, Liv. 1,4,5 (where, from a false etymology, the earlier form is said to have been Rumularis, Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 90: alii a Romulo velint dictam quasi Romularem); Tac. A. 13, 58; Aur. Vict. Orig. 20 fin.; Fest. p. 270 Müll.; cf. id. p. 400 ib.; Serv. 1. 1.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 54 Müll.—By poet. license, it is also called,
  • B Rūmĭna ficus, Ov. F. 2, 412 (where, as above in Liv., from a false etymology, a pretended older form, Romula, is given).

Rūmĭna, ficus, v. 1. Rumina, B.

Rūmina (in Hdschrn. auch Rūmia), ae, f. (rumis), die Göttin der Säugenden bei den Römern, die in einem besonderen Tempel in der Nähe des Feigenbaumes verehrt wurde, unter dem der Sage nach eine Wölfin den Romulus u. Remus genährt hatte, Varro r. r. 2, 11, 5. Augustin. de civ. dei 4, 11. p. 161, 6 D². u.a. – Dav. Rūmīnālis ficus, der Feigenbaum des Romulus u. Remus, Varro LL. 5, 54. Plin. 15, 77. Liv. 1, 4, 5 (nach dem er früher Rominalis ficus hieß): ebenso Ruminalis arbor, Nipperd. Tac. ann. 13, 58; u. Rūmina ficus, Ov. fast. 2, 412 (nach dem er früher Romula ficus hieß).

Rūmīna, v. Rumia.

Rumīna

and Rumīnus (from rumis or ruma, “a teat”). Ancient Italian pastoral deities, who protected the suckling cattle and received offerings of milk (Varro, R. R. ii. 2, 5; ii. 11, 15). In Rome their sanctuary stood at the foot of the Palatine Hill, in the neighbourhood of the Lupercal; in the same place was the Ruminal fig-tree (probably a primitive emblem of the nurturing goddess; the Rumina ficus of Ovid, Fasti, ii. 412), under which Romulus and Remus were said to have been suckled by the wolf. (See Romulus.) The name Ruminus was also applied to Iupiter as the nourisher of all things (St. August. De Civ. Dei, vii. 11).