Poena
In
Roman mythology
,
Poena
(also
Poine
) is the
goddess
of
punishment
and the attendant of punishment to
Nemesis
. The
Latin
word
poena
, "pain, punishment, penalty", gave rise to
English
words such as
subpoena
.
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word
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