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See also:VERTUMNUS (or VORTUMNUS, " turning," "changing ") , in See also:Roman See also:mythology, the See also:god of the changing See also:year with its seasons, See also:flowers and fruits, probably of See also:Italian origin . Like See also:Proteus, he had the See also:power of assuming any shape he pleased, which enabled him to win the love of See also:Pomona (q.v.) . His See also:shrine and statue (see the well-known description in See also:Propertius iv . 2) were in the Vicus Tuscus, and from his connexion with this busy See also:street he was regarded as having a See also:special See also:interest in See also:trade and See also:barter . At another See also:sanctuary on the slope of the Aventine, See also:sacrifice was offered to him every year on the 13th of See also:August . It is probable that he was of See also:Etruscan origin (see Wissowa, See also:Religion and Kultus der Romer, 1902, p . 233) . |
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