Vertumnus

Role: suitor · First appears: Fable 108

Life events

• Vertumnus transformed himself into an old woman and entered Pomona’s gardens.(Fable108)
  • “He, too, having bound his brows with a coloured cap,[53] leaning on a stick, with white hair placed around his temples, assumed the shape of an old woman, and entered the well-cultivated gardens,”
• Disguised Vertumnus proposed himself to Pomona as her marriage partner.(Fable108)
  • With: Pomona
  • “choose for thyself Vertumnus, as the partner of thy couch; and take me as a surety {for him}.”

Fable 108

• courtship with Pomona “But thou, if thou art wise, {and} if thou dost wish to make a good match, and to listen to an old woman, (who loves thee more than them all, and more than thou dost believe) despise a common alliance, and choose for thyself Vertumnus, as the partner of thy couch;”
• admired: Pomona “But yet Vertumnus exceeded even these in his love, nor was he more fortunate than the rest.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.