Veni'lia
a Roman divinity connected with the winds (
venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Juturna, and Canens. (Varro,
de Ling. Lut. 5.72;
Verg. A. 10.75;
Ov. Met. 14.334.)
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