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The Italic lymphae were connected with healing cults. Juturna, who is usually called a "nymph," is identified by Varro as Lympha: "Juturna is the Lympha who aids: therefore many ailing people on account of her name customarily seek out this water", with a play on the name Iu-turna and the verb iuvare, "to help, aid." Juturna's water shrine was a spring-fed ''lacus'' in the forum which attracted cure-seekers, and Propertius

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