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Lucerius, Luceria

also Lucetius and Lucetia, that is, the giver of light, occur as surnames of Jupiter and Juno. According to Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 9.570) the name was used especially among the Oscans. (Macr. 1.15; Gellius, 5.12; Paul. Diac. p. 114, ed. Miller; comp. LUCINA.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.