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  • proper noun An Etruscan goddess of time, fate, destiny and chance.

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Examples

  • Volsinii also nails fixed in the temple of Nortia, a Tuscan goddess, as indices of the number of years.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Bolsena (the ancient Volsinii), of the ruins of which there are still the remnants of the temple of Nortia, of the "Thermæ", or hot baths, of Sejanus, of the mausoleum of L. Canuelius, etc.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Cincius, a careful student of monuments of this kind, asserts that at Volsinii also nails were fastened in the temple of Nortia, an Etruscan goddess, to indicate the number of the year.

    The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

  • "Nortia is contemplating the wall into which she drove nails to mark the number of the years.

    Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850

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