Regina

Latin-English

rēgīn|a, -ae. (reˈdʒi.na) fem.

1. A queen.

[rex.]

Cic.	23%	Class.	2%	Rom.	0%	Med.	0%	Neo.	0%

Constructions

Noun constructions

• Iuno Regina — ‘Queen Juno,’ Cic. [εʹ]; Aug. [αʹ], [βʹ]

Preposition constructions

• de regina — ‘about the queen,’ Cic. [γ²], [δʹ], [δ²], [δ⁵]

Loci

Cicero

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 14.8:

Reginae fuga mihi non molesta est.

The queen's escape does not bother me.

• γ² prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 14.20:

De regina velim atque etiam de Caesare illo.

I want to hear about the queen and also about her Caesar.

• δʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.1:

De regina rumor exstinguitur.

The rumor about the queen is being quashed.

• δ² prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.4:

De Menedemo vellem verum fuisset, de regina velim verum sit.

I would have liked it to be true about Menedemus; I would like it to be true about the queen.

• δ³ Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.15:

Reginam odi.

I hate the queen.

• δ⁴ Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.15:

Superbiam autem ipsius reginae, cum esset trans Tiberim in hortis, commemorare sine magno dolore non possum.

And I can't look back on the arrogance of the queen herself, when she was in Trastevere at the Gardens, without a great deal of pain.

• δ⁵ prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.17:

De regina gaudeo te non laborare, testem etiam tibi probari.

I'm glad you're not bothered about the queen, and also that the witness seems good to you.

• εʹ Cicero, De Domo Sua 57.144:

Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia populus Romanus Optimum, propter vim Maximum nominavit, teque, Iuno Regina, et te, custos urbis, Minerva, quae semper adiutrix consiliorum meorum, testis laborum exstitisti, precor atque quaeso....

And so, Capitoline, I pray and beg of you, whom the Roman people have named Best because of your kindnesses and Greatest because of your power, and you, Queen Juno, and you, Minerva, guardian of the city, who have always stood forth as helper in my decisions and witness to my labors...

Classical

• αʹ n. Augustus, Res Gestae 4.19 (reginae = βασιλίδος):

aedes Minervae et Iunonis Reginae et Iovis Libertatis in Aventino

the temples of Minerva, Queen Juno, and Liberty Jupiter on the Aventine

• βʹ n. Anonymous, Monumentum Ancyranum App.2 (reginae = βασιλίδος):

aedem Martis, Iovis Tonantis et Feretri, Apollinis, divi Iuli, Quirini, Minervae, Iunonis Reginae, Iovis Libertatis, Larum, deum Penatium, Iuventatis, Matris Deum

the temple of Mars, of Thundering and Feretrian Jupiter, of Apollo, of the deified Julius, of Quirinus, of Minerva, of Queen Juno, of Liberty Jupiter, of the Lares, of the Di Penates, of Youth, and of the Mother of the Gods