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Title: Ancient legends of Roman history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Pais, Ettore, 1856-1939 Cosenza, Mario Emilio, 1880-1966, tr
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he Aven-tine, but beneath the temple of Saturn in the Forum.56The thought naturally arises that there may have been moreor less similar cults in the different Latin cities, and thatthe two temples of Diana (at Rome and at Aricia) werenot closely related to each other. Nevertheless, it must beremarked that Roman tradition is consistent in stating thatthe Aventine was inhabited by the Prisci Latini, and thatthe temple of Diana Aventinensis was erected by the entireLatin confederation.57 The dependence, finally, of the temple of Diana Aventi-nensis and of the myth of Servius Tullius upon that ofDiana Aricina is clear. It results from the circumstancethat, in a case of incest, Emperor Claudius believed it oppor-tune to recall to vigor certain ancient laws of the Romans,and ordered that expiations be made according to the riteestablished by Servius Tullius for the grove of DianaAricina.58 The legend of Servius Tullius was closely re-lated to the story of the incestuous love of his daughter
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SERVIUS TULLIUS 147 Tullia with the young Tarquinius. Similarly, the Greekstory spoke of the love of the stepmother Phaedra for Hip-polytus, who later was brought back to life under the nameand the figure of the aged Virbius. It is fully comprehen-sible, then, why the antiquarian Emperor Claudius shouldwish to reenforce laws attributed by the sacred annals to thesixth king of Rome. From what has thus far been said we may conclude thatreligious tradition was not in error in affirming that the tem-ple of Diana on the Aventine had relations with the Latins.It results that the legends referring to Servius rex are butthe cults and the myths of the lake at Aricia, which, in338 B.C., yielded its sacra to Rome. The circumstance thatthe remains of Orestes, when transported from Aricia, werenot buried on the Aventine, but in the Forum, is to be ex-plained by the fact that the officially recognized founder ofthe temple of Diana Aricina was not the Greek Orestes, butthe Arician Egerius.59 Hence,

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