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Verticordia

"Changer of the Heart", an attribute of Venus, the goddess who turns the hearts of men. Pausanius (Book 1) mentions a temple of Aphrodite (Verticordia), on the way up to the Carian Acropolis of Megara.

From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

From Fasti By Ovid

And the ancients consulted the old woman of Cumae.
She ordered a temple built to Venus: when it was done
Venus took the name of Heart-Changer (Verticordia).
Loveliest One, always look with a benign gaze
On the sons of Aeneas, and guard their many wives.
As I speak, Scorpio, the tip of whose raised tail
Strikes fear, plunges down into the green waves.

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