7. Does Venus Militaris, also, preside over the evil-doing [4112] of camps, and the debaucheries of young men? Is there one Perfica, [4113] also, of the crowd of deities, who causes those base and filthy delights to reach their end with uninterrupted pleasure? Is there also Pertunda, who presides over the marriage [4114] couch? Is there also Tutunus, on whose huge members [4115] and horrent fascinum you think it auspicious, and desire, that your matrons should be borne? But if facts themselves have very little effect in suggesting to you a right understanding of the truth, are you not able, even from the very names, to understand that these are the inventions of a most meaningless superstition, and the false gods of fancy? [4116] Puta, you say, presides over the pruning of trees, Peta over prayers; Nemestrinus [4117] is the god of groves; Patellana is a deity, and Patella, of whom the one has been set over things brought to light, the other over those yet to be disclosed. Nodutis is spoken of as a god, because he [4118] brings that which has been sown to the knots: and she who presides over the treading out of grain, Noduterensis; [4119] the goddess Upibilia [4120] delivers from straying from the right paths; parents bereaved of their children are under the care of Orbona,--those very near to death, under that of Nænia. Again, [4121] Ossilago herself is mentioned as she who gives firmness and solidity to the bones of young children. Mellonia is a goddess, strong and powerful in regard to bees, caring for and guarding the sweetness of their honey.