Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pomōna

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Pomōna

An old Italian divinity presiding over the fruit of trees (poma). Her service was performed by a special priest (flamen Pomonalis), and she had a special sanctuary (Pomonal) between Ardea and Ostia. See Varro, L. L. vii. 45, and Vertumnus.

The Doric Peristyle of the Atrium of a House (reg. vi. ins. ix. n. 2), known as the

Casa del Meleagro

, from the subject of one of its finest paintings.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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