or POSTVORTA, is properly a surname of Carmenta, describing her as turning backward and
looking at the past, which she revealed to poets and other mortals. In like manner the
prophetic power with which she looked into the future, is indicated by the surnames Antevorta,
Prorsa (i. e. Proversa), and Porrima. Poets, however, have personified these attributes of
Carmenta, and thus describe them as the companions of the goddess. (