Ancient legends of Roman history . ia Patricia in the Forum Boariumthat Virginia had been removed,—there is a fact of para-mount importance. Aside from the fact that in this area(situated as it was, outside the ancient pomerium) it wouldbe difficult to discover traces of an ancient patrician cult, weactually know that there did exist in that region a temple ofPudicitia—but it was of Pudicitia Plebeia. It was thattemple which (as we have had occasion to see in the legendof Servius Tullius) was by some reputed to be the seat ofthe goddess From this error, however, it doesnot by any me
Ancient legends of Roman history . ia Patricia in the Forum Boariumthat Virginia had been removed,—there is a fact of para-mount importance. Aside from the fact that in this area(situated as it was, outside the ancient pomerium) it wouldbe difficult to discover traces of an ancient patrician cult, weactually know that there did exist in that region a temple ofPudicitia—but it was of Pudicitia Plebeia. It was thattemple which (as we have had occasion to see in the legendof Servius Tullius) was by some reputed to be the seat ofthe goddess From this error, however, it doesnot by any means result that the story in Livy should bediscarded as a whole, without further consideration. Thedifficulty is easily removed if the scene which Livy placesin the Forum Boarium is, instead, referred either to thetemple of Fortuna Seia near the Velia, or to the ForumRomanum, and particularly to the Sacra Via at that precisespot where was the sacellum of Venus Tradition, in fact, dated this monument as early as the. LUCRETIA AND VIRGINIA 199 times of Tatius. At this place, as a result of the inter-vention of the Sabine women, had the fathers and the hus-bands formed the fundamental compact of the unitednations. Venus Cloacina thus became recognized as thegoddess of chaste and holy matrimony. The cult of VenusCloacina is strictly patrician; and, if it is related that theplebeian Virginius slew his daughter near the statue of thatgoddess, such a statement proves still further that the legendof Virginia was connected with the patrician cult of VenusCloacina, and demonstrates the foreign origin of the talelocalized in the Forum Romanum. The transference oc-curred only after the neighboring taberncs had been altered
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