Prayers to Minerva

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==Cicero De Domo sua ad Pontifices 144==
 
  
O Minerva, You have always come to my aid with Your counsels, witness
 
to the existence of my works;
 
 
==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae VI 2065==
 
 
Minerva, for what I have vowed today, in the same words that made my
 
pledge to offer Jupiter Optimus Maximus an ox with gilt horns,
 
[(being that) if You will grant Emperor Caesar Domitianus Augustus
 
Germanicus, son of the divine Vespasian, pontifex maximus, having
 
powers of the tribune of the people, censor in perpetuity, father of
 
his country, and Dimitia Augusta, his wife, and Julia Augusta, for
 
those whom I have named and also for all those others whom I have not
 
named who live in their households on the third day before the Nones
 
of January, and after them the people of Rome, the Quirites, and also
 
for the Republic of the people of Rome, the Quirites, and if from
 
this day You will preserve their health from peril, whereby they
 
remain as they are today, or indeed their lot is improved by good
 
results,] then if You would also make it so, then to You, in the same
 
words, in the name of the college of Fratres Arvales I vow to
 
sacrifice to You in the future an ox cow with gilt horns.
 
 
==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae XI 1305 Travi, Aemilia==
 
 
To Minerva, in memory for restoring her hair, Tullia Superiana
 
willingly and deservedly fulfills her vow.
 
 
==CIL 11, 1306 = ILS 3137, Travi, Aemilia ==
 
Minervae / Medicae / Cardabiac(ensis) / Valeria / Sammonia /
 
Vercellens(is) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)
 
AE 1962, 152, Visentium (Bisenzo), Etruria
 
Minervae Nortinae sacr(um) L(ucius) Aebutius L(uci) f(ilius) Sab
 
(atina) Saturninus
 
 
==Livy 6.16.1 ==
 
 
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Juno Regina, Minerva, and all you other gods
 
and goddesses who dwell upon the Capitolium and the Arx, is this how
 
you allow your defender, the protector of your shrines, to be
 
treated, to be vexed and harassed by his enemies in this manner?
 
Shall this right arm which drove the Gauls headlong from your shrines
 
now be bound and chained?
 
 
==Ovid Fasti 6.652==
 
Come now, golden haired Minerva, to favor the task I've begun.
 
 
==Seneca Hercules Furens 900==
 
 
To you, you alone, O warlike Pallas Minerva, I pray, friend and
 
companion in all my toils; Tamer of Lycurgus, ivy wreathed you
 
crossed the eastern seas, bearing the Thyrsus in your hand; and you
 
divine twins, Apollo and Diana, hear my prayer.
 
 
==Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vita Probi c. 12.7 ==
 
 
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Juno Regina, and You virtuous dancer,
 
Minerva, Concordia of the bereaved, Victoria of the Romans, grant
 
this meeting of the Senate of the Roman people, grant these Roman
 
soldiers, and those soldiers of our allies and of friendly foreign
 
nations as well, that they will serve as he commands.
 
 
==Statius Thebaid 2.715-42==
 
 
Proud, warlike Goddess, great honor and wisdom of Your Father,
 
powerful in war are You, on whom the grim helmet is borne with its
 
frightful decoration, speckled with the Gorgon's blood that glows
 
more violent with increasing rage, never has Mavors or Bellona with
 
Her battle spear inspired more ardent calls to arms on the war
 
trumpets than You. May You with Your nod accept this sacrificial
 
offering. Whether You come from Mount Pandion to our rites by night,
 
or from dancing happily in Ainian Itone, or from washing once more
 
Your hair in the waters of Libyan Triton, or whether the winged axle
 
of your war chariot, with its paired pure-bred horses carries you
 
astride its beam, shouting aloud, now, to You, we dedicate the
 
shattered spoils of virile men and their battered armour. Should I
 
return to my Parthaonian fields, and upon being sighted Martian
 
Pleuron should throw open wide her gates for me, then amid her hills,
 
at the center of the city, I shall dedicate to you a golden temple
 
where it may be your pleasure to look upon Ionian storms, and where
 
Achelous tosses about his flaxen hair to disturb the sea where it
 
leaves behind the breakers of Echinades. In here will I display
 
accounts of ancestral wars and the death-masks of great hearted
 
kings, and affix the arms of the proud in the rotunda that I have
 
returned with myself, taken at the cost of my own blood, and those,
 
Tritonia, that you will grant when Thebes is captured. There a
 
hundred Calydonian virgins will serve in devotions at your altar,
 
shall duly twine the Actaean torches, and weave from Your chaste
 
olive tree purple sacrificial fillets with snow white strands of
 
wool. At nightly vigils an aged priestess will tend your altar's
 
fire, and never will she neglect to safeguard your modesty, attending
 
in secret to the rites of your boudoir. To you in war, to you in
 
peace, the first fruits of our labors shall be borne, without offence
 
to Diana.
 

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