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JUTURNA (alder form Diuturna, the lasting)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 610 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
JUTURNA (alder form Diuturna, the lasting) , an old Latin divinity, a personification of the never-failing springs. Her
original
 
home
  was on the river Numicius near Lavinium, where there was a
spring
  called after her, supposed to possess healing qualities (whence the old Roman derivation from juvare, to help). Her
worship
  was early transferred to Rome, localized by the Lacus Juturnae near the temple of Vesta, at which Castor and Pollux, after announcing the victory of lake Regillus, were said to have washed the sweat from their horses. At the end of the First Punic War Lutatius Catulus erected a temple in her honour on the Campus
Martius
 , subsequently- re-stored by
Augustus
 . Juturna was associated with two festivals: the Juturnalia on the 11th of January, probably a dedication festival of a temple built by
Augustus
 , and celebrated by the college of the foniani, workmen employed in the construction and maintenance of aqueducts and fountains; and the Volcanalia on the 23rd of August, at which sacrifice was offered to Volcanus, the Nymphs and Juturna, as protectors against outbreaks of fire. In Virgil, Juturna appears as the
sister
  of Turnus (probably owing to the partial similarity of the names), on whom Jupiter, to console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed immortality and the
control
  of all the lakes and rivers of Latium. For the statement that she was the wife of Janus and mother of Fontus (or Fons), the god of fountains, Arnobius (Adv. genies iii. 29) is alone responsible.
zz
See Virgil, Aeneid, xii. 139 and Servius ad loc.; Ovid,
Fasti
 , ii. 583616; Valerius Maximus, i. 8. 1; L. Deubner, " Juturna and die Ausgrabungen auf dem romischen Forum," in Neue Jahrb. f. das klassische Altertum (1902), p. 370.


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