Lactans

• the god of milky growth in corn: Lactantem deum esse qui se infundit segetibus, et eas facit lactescere, Varr. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 315.

and LACTURCIA, Roman divinities, who were believed to protect the young fruits of the field. (Serv. ad Aen. 1.315; August. De Civ. Dei, 4.3.) Some believe that Lactans and Lacturcia are mere surnames of Ops, and that Lacturnus is a surname of Saturnus. (Hartung, Die Relig. der Röm. vol. ii. pp. 129, 132.) [L.S]