Identifier: historyofromerom11duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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not far from the Capena Gate, the grotto wliereinthe goddess gave sage counsel to the new king. This grotto was in fact a nymjihteum cou-secrated to some water divinity ; but Egeria never dwelt there, even according to the legend.The abode assigned to her by the ancients yvas in the wood of the Cameuae, on the C«lius,where from a dark cave came a fountain that never dried up. 16 ROME VMIEU THE ivIMiS. most iidlilc families to keep up the perpetual fire, the Palladium, andtli(> penates; and lastly of the Salii, who guarded the shield thathad fallen from heaven ((incilc), and celebrated the festival of The eight cohiinns of the IVmpli (if Satui-n. the God nf AVar by songs and ariiicd dances. lie forbade bloodysacrifices, the representation of the (Jod by images of wood, bronze,or stone, and paid special honours to Saturn, the father of Italiancivilisation, the king of the golden age, of the times of virtue, Kemaiiia of a temple (jf .Saturn, ivlmilt liy llie KniiiiTiii- Maxiiitiiis.
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a M TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE KIXGS. 19 plenty, aud oijiiality, whose festival, a day of mad joy audliberty cveii for tlie slave, suspended hostilities on the frontiers

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