god
Pomona
Roman goddess of orchard fruit and a Latin wood-nymph (hamadryad), skilled in pruning and grafting; wooed and won by Vertumnus.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.460 Pomona
Goddess of orchard fruit (from pomum, fruit), a Latin tree-nymph devoted to pruning and grafting and indifferent to love -- the heroine of the book's last love-tale.