Vertumnus

Vertumnus in Wikipedia

In Roman mythology, Vertumnus - also Vortumnus or Vertimnus - is the god of seasons, change[1] and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman and gaining entry to her or...

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Vertumnus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Vertumnus or VORTUMNUS, is said to have been an Etruscan divinity whose worship was introduced at Rome by an ancient Vulsinian colony occupying at first the Caelian hill, and afterwards the vicus Tuscus. (Propert 4.2. 6, &c.; Ov. Miet. 14.642.) The name is evidently connected with verto, and formed on the analogy of alumnus from alo, when...

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