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    Saint Matrona of Chios (also called "Saint Matrona Chiopolitis") was born during the 15th century in the village of Volissos on the island of Chios, Greece...
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    Archaeological Museum, Naples. It shows a woman selling tiny cupids to a matrona. It was widely known and reproduced in the 18th and 19th centuries, proving...
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    on the Palatine Hill. Livia would set the pattern for the noble Roman matrona. She wore neither excessive jewelry nor pretentious costumes; she took...
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    Enderrock "Best Album" for La matrona (2005) Award Altaveu "Best pop-rock album" for La matrona (2005) Award Puig Porret for La matrona (2005) Award Ciutat de...
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    be made to divorce, lose a proportion of her dowry, and her status as matrona or materfamilias, and be redefined as a meretrix. A husband who failed...
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    Roman authors never refer to a bride as a matrona and that it is unlikely Lucan would utilize the terms matrona and nupta interchangeably to describe the...
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  • (Latin for 'Mothers and Matrons'); Latvian Māte ('Mother'); Gaulish Dea Matrona ('Divine Mother Goddess'); Sanskrit Matrikas ('Divine Mothers'). e.g.,...
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    self-destruction. The poet identifies Roma (the res publica) with the idealised Roman matrona. A man who rejects either one cannot be truly Roman. Roma is represented...
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    Life of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus 1.5 Hemelrijk, Emily Ann (2004). Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna....
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    Griesbarth, Hilderath, Merreter and Peel, including a 2nd-century, metre-high matrona stone discovered in 1961 and probably the remains of a road. In 2010, excavations...
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  • (HC – Antonio López Herranz)  Netherlands Antilles Ergilio Hato Pedro Matrona Wilfred de Lannoy Moises Bicentini Ludgero Adoptie Guillermo Giribaldi...
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