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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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ome from Aricia, and the legend ofthe sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius, who is but thepale reflection of the cult of Diana Aricina and of theservus rex nemorensis—that is, the king of the Ariciangrove.31 About 340 B.C. the Romans had established aspecial fcedus with the knights of Lavinium, and later, in338 B.C., had punished the Laurinates for having enteredupon an alliance with the rebellious Latini. It is natural,then, to believe that, particularly in this period, the cult ofVesta and of the Penates of the Lauro-Lavinians shouldhave become entirely Romanized.32 The cult of Vesta andof the spring Juturna, after having been transferred toRome and located on the slopes of the Palatine, forced intooblivion Caca, the Vestal of the Palatine, as well as the cultof the Lares.83 This latter cult, which was ascribed toKing Ancus Marcius, was later restored to honor byAugustus. It is obvious that the cults of Ardea must have had thesame lot. In a more ancient period Ardea had had a great
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LUCRETIA AND VIRGINIA 195 political importance; and this period (subsequent, perhaps,to the still more ancient glory of Lavinium) is the openingof the fifth century. Ardea, in fact, played a conspicuouspart in the struggles with the Etruscans and the Gauls, atthe time of Porsenna and of Camillus respectively. ByGreek annalists she is placed in relation with Cumse andwith the tyrant Aristodemus Malaco. What is stated byGreek historiography is, in part, related also by the Romanannals of the fifth century, and is assigned by legend to theeleventh century B.C., in speaking of the mythical warsof ^Eneas against Turnus and Mezentius, king of theEtruscan Caere. Concerning the subsequent importance ofArdea, we obtain some small light from the Greek legendwhich considered Ardea, Rome and Antium (the largestmaritime city of Latium and of the country of the Vol-scians) as th? three daughters of Ulysses and of Circe.34Ardea passed as one of those cities which had transmittedto Rome some of their

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