Juturna, or Diuturne, was a goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus. A Roman festival was held in her honor on January 11, when she was sacrificed and honored by the fontani (the men who maintained the fountains and aqueducts of
Juturna, the fountain nymph
Juturna was an ancient Latin fountain deity, who in some myths, was transformed by Jupiter into a water nymph – a naiad – and given a sacred well at Lavinium, Latium, as well as another near the temple of Vesta in the Forum Romanum. The pool next to the second well was called Lacus Juturnae. A water nymph or river god usually presides over a single body of water, but the deity has broader powers that probably reflect her original importance in Latium, where she had temples at Rome and Lavinium, a cult of the salubrious waters at Ardea, and the fountain/well next to the lake in the Roman Forum.
It's here, in the legend Roman, that the deities Castor and Pollux watered their horses after bringing news of the Roman victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC. Coriolanus, 3.4).
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