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JUTURNA (See also:alder See also:form Diuturna, the lasting)  , an old Latin divinity, a personification of the never-failing springs . Her See also:original See also:home was on the See also:river Numicius near See also:Lavinium, where there was a See also:spring called after her, supposed to possess healing qualities (whence the old See also:Roman derivation from juvare, to help) . Her See also:worship was See also:early transferred to See also:Rome, localized by the Lacus Juturnae near the See also:temple of See also:Vesta, at which See also:Castor and See also:Pollux, after announcing the victory of See also:lake See also:Regillus, were said to have washed the sweat from their horses . At the end of the First Punic See also:War Lutatius See also:Catulus erected a temple in her See also:honour on the Campus See also:Martius, subsequently- re-stored by See also:Augustus . See also:Juturna was associated with two festivals: the Juturnalia on the 11th of See also:January, probably a See also:dedication festival of a temple built by Augustus, and celebrated by the See also:college of the foniani, workmen employed in the construction and See also:maintenance of aqueducts and fountains; and the Volcanalia on the 23rd of See also:August, at which See also:sacrifice was offered to Volcanus, the See also:Nymphs and Juturna, as protectors against outbreaks of See also:fire . In See also:Virgil, Juturna appears as the See also:sister of Turnus (probably owing to the partial similarity of the names), on whom See also:Jupiter, to See also:console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed See also:immortality and the See also:control of all the lakes and See also:rivers of See also:Latium . For the statement that she was the wife of See also:Janus and See also:mother of Fontus (or Fons), the See also:god of fountains, See also:Arnobius (Adv. genies iii . 29) is alone responsible . zz See Virgil, Aeneid, xii . 139 and Servius ad loc.; See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, ii . 583–616; See also:Valerius See also:Maximus, i . 8 .

1; L . Deubner, " Juturna and See also:

die Ausgrabungen auf dem romischen See also:Forum," in Neue Jahrb. f. das klassische Altertum (1902), p . 370 .

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