Pomona

Family: Hamadryads of Latium · Role: gardener · First appears: Fable 108

Life events

• Disguised Vertumnus proposed himself to Pomona as her marriage partner.(Fable108)
  • With: Vertumnus
  • “choose for thyself Vertumnus, as the partner of thy couch; and take me as a surety {for him}.”

Fable 108

• with Proca (Pomona lived under the rule of King Proca.) “Under this king Pomona lived;”
• courtship with Vertumnus “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;”
• admirer: Vertumnus “But yet Vertumnus exceeded even these in his love, nor was he more fortunate than the rest.”
• courtship with Sylvanus “What did not the Satyrs do, a youthful crew expert at the dance, and the Pans with their brows wreathed with pine, and Sylvanus, ever more youthful than his years, and the God who scares the thieves either with his pruning-hook or with his groin, in order that they might gain her?”

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