Brewer's: June Marriages Lucky

“Good to the man and happy to the maid.” This is an old Roman superstition. The festival of Juno moneta was held on the calends of June, and Juno was the great guardian of the female sex from birth to death.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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