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JUTURNA ( See also: original home was on the See also: river Numicius near See also: Lavinium, where there was a spring called after her, supposed to possess healing qualities (whence the old See also: Roman derivation from juvare, to help)
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Her worship was 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 lake See also: Regillus, were said to have washed the sweat from their horses
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At the end of the First Punic War Lutatius See also: Catulus erected a temple in her honour on the Campus Martius, subsequently- re-stored by See also: Augustus
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Juturna was associated with two festivals: the Juturnalia on the 11th of See also: January, probably a dedication festival of a temple built by Augustus, and celebrated by the See also: college of the foniani, workmen employed in the construction and maintenance of aqueducts and fountains; and the Volcanalia on the 23rd of See also: August, at which sacrifice was offered to Volcanus, the See also: Nymphs and Juturna, as protectors against outbreaks of fire
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In 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 console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed immortality and the control of all the lakes and See also: rivers of See also: Latium
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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, Arnobius (Adv. genies iii
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29) is alone responsible
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See Virgil, Aeneid, xii
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139 and Servius ad loc.; Ovid, See also: Fasti, ii
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583–616; See also: Valerius See also: Maximus, i
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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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