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(Latin=love, sensual desire) Old Italic goddess of spring and gardens, native to Latium. It was not until the beginning of the third century BC that her cult reached Rome.
Her feast—the Veneralia—was celebrated on 1 April. Under the influence of Greek literature she was equated with → Aphrodíte. Caesar, who regarded himself as descended from → Aenéas and hence from Aphrodíte/Venus, introduced the cult of Venus Genetrix, in which the life-giving function of the goddess was stressed.
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