god
Vertumnus
Etruscan-Roman god of the turning seasons and of change, master of disguise; he woos Pomona through many shapes and at last as an old woman.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.460 Vertumnus
The Etruscan-Roman god of seasonal change and of the turning year (from vertere, to turn), a shape-shifter; his courtship of Pomona is his signature myth.