# Suadela

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In [Roman mythology](/source/Roman_mythology), '''Suada''' (also called by the diminutive '''Suadela''') was the [goddess](/source/goddess) of persuasion, particularly in the realms of [romance](/source/romantic_love), [seduction](/source/seduction) and [love](/source/love).  She was strongly associated with [Venus](/source/Venus_(deity)). Her [Greek](/source/Greek_mythology) name was [Peitho](/source/Peitho), and she was worshipped as a divinity in [Sicyon](/source/Sicyon), where she was honoured with a temple in the [agora](/source/agora).<ref>{{cite book |last= Mayo |first= Robert |title= A new system of mythology: in three volumes; giving a full account of the idolatry of the pagan world; Vol. 3 |year= 1819  |location = Philadelphia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2IuAAAAYAAJ&dq=suada&pg=RA1-PA10}}</ref> Sometimes she is associated with or counted as one of the [Graces](/source/Graces), being part of Venus’s retinue.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor = Francis Lieber | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Americana | title = Suada, or Suadela | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LPRPAAAAMAAJ&dq=suada&pg=PA37 | edition = New | year = 1835 | volume = 12 | location = Philadelphia | pages = 37}}</ref> [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch) observed in his ''Quaestiones Romanae'' (part of the ''[Moralia](/source/Moralia)'') that the married couple needed five gods: Nuptial Jupiter, Nuptial Juno, Venus, Suada, and above all Diana, whom women call upon in childbirth.<ref>[Plutarch](/source/Plutarch), [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0212%3Asection%3D2 ''Quaestiones Romanae'', sect.2 ]</ref>

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