The husbandmen carried through the fields, a sow big with young, or a cow-calf, at the beginning of harvest, with dancing and shouts of joy. […] They were painted as beautiful young virgins, crowned with flowers, ears of corn, grapes, and olive branches; lightly drest in gauze robes, and in elegant attitudes. […] They are represented as beautiful young females inhabiting the rocks on the coast of Sicily. […] Pomona was represented under the form of a beautiful young woman sitting upon a basket of fruit; and near her, stood Vertumnus in the figure of a young man, holding fruit in one hand, and in the other, the horn of plenty. […] They were represented as young men, holding, in one hand, a drinking vessel, and in the other, a horn of plenty.
A shepherd, who acquired from Jupiter the faculty of being always young. […] She was represented as a young woman giving a serpent drink out of a saucer, the serpent being twined round her arm. […] A Roman goddess who took care of young infants. […] The gods, however, changed him into a grasshopper, which is supposed to moult as it gets old, and grows young again. […] He was a great favorite of the goddess Ceres, who cured him of a dangerous illness when he was young, and afterwards taught him agriculture.