A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

JUTURNA.

A Fountain in Latium, disimboguing itself into the River Numicius. The Fable tells us, that she was Daughter of Danaus, and Sister to Tutnus King of the Ru∣tnll, whom Jupiter loved and enjoyed, she assisted her Brother against Aenaeas; but ha∣ving perceived that the Fates were averse to him, out of despair she cast herself headlong into the River Numicius.

Ovid, in the 6th Book of his Fasti, speaks of the Temple of Juturna the Sister of Turnus, so often mentioned by Virgil in his Aeneids, who was beloved by Jupiter, from whence she took her name, as if one said Joviturna.

The truth of the History is, that it was a Fountain in Italy, the waters whereof were very fine and wholesom, from whence it took also its name, as Servius informs us, in lib. 12. Aeneid. Jaturna fons est in Italia saluberrimus, cui nomen a juvando est inditum. Varro on the contrary seems to say, that the waters of that Fountain were sought after, because of its name, out of a superstitious and common simplicity, Nympha Juturna quae juvaret; itaque multi propter id nomen hinc aquam petere solent.