Vortumnus

Vortumnus (or Vertumnus), Roman god of orchards and fruit, who presided over the changes of the year. He was regarded as the husband of Pomona, whom he wooed in a succession of various forms, reaper, ploughman, pruner, etc. His name, connected with vertere, ‘to turn’, was explained variously, as of the god who changes his shape, or who presides over the ‘turn’ of the year (autumn), or who once turned back a flood of the Tiber.