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

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Portūnus

or Portumnus. The Roman god of harbours, though originally of doors and gates (portae). Like Ianus (q.v.), the god of coming in and going out, he was represented with a key, and was perhaps only a personification of one attribute of Ianus. He had a special flamen in Rome (Portunalis), and at the harbour on the Tiber he had a temple, where a festival, the Portunalia, was held in his honour every year on August 17th. In later times he was identified with the Greek Palaemon (q.v.).

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

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