Māia | Māja, ae | Majja (noun F) : (written by Cicero , , etc.;
* V. the letter J), , f., = Μαῖα.
* Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and the mother of Mercury by Jupiter, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56: Majā genitum demittit ab alto,i. e. Mercury,Verg. A. 1, 297: Maiā natus,Hor. S. 2, 6, 5; Ov. M. 11, 303; Macr. S. 1, 12, 19; acc. Majam, Ov. F. 4, 174.—As one of the Pleiades: sanctissima Maja,Cic. Arat. 270: multi ante occasum Majae coepere,Verg. G. 1, 225; Ov. F. 4, 174; 5, 85.
* A daughter of Faunus, Macr. S. 1, 12.