Stimula
the name of Semele, according to the pronunciation of the Romans. (Liv. 39.12; Augustin. De Civ. Dei, 4.11, 16; Ov. Fast. 6.503.) Augustin is wrong in deriving the name from stimulus. (Müller, Etrusk. ii. p. 77.)
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.