Vervactor

A Roman divinity of the turning over of fallow land, of the first plowing in spring as soon as weather would permit, after which the land was termed vervactum. See also Imporcitor, Reparator.

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References

Sources

  • Q. Fabius Pictor ap. Servius on Virgil's Georgics v, 21.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.