Pilumnus

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Latin legend represented her as landing on the coast of Latium and marrying Pilumnus or Picumnus, from whom Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was descended.

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Pilumnus, god of the pestle, and Diverra, goddess of the broom, may close our small sample of the limitless crowd.

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Though him, Pilumnus' own son's son, Venilia brought to birth— But what if Trojans fall with flame upon the Latin folk, And drive the prey from off their fields oppressed by outland yoke?

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He spake, and to the roofed place now swiftly wending home, Called for his steeds, and merrily stood there before their foam, E'en those that Orithyia gave Pilumnus, gift most fair, Whose whiteness overpassed the snow, whose speed the wingèd air.

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And while thus things pass far in the distance, Juno daughter of Saturn sent Iris down the sky to gallant Turnus, then haply seated in his forefather Pilumnus' holy forest dell.

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