Ancient legends of Roman history . mm A ROMAN DIVINITY. (MAGAZINO COMUNALE, ROME) HORATII AND VALERII 167 then, that under the form of a cow were worshipped both thegoddess Vitellia and the goddess Vacuna, the Sabine god-dess of Victory.*7 And since Vitellia was connected withEvander and the Fauni, our thoughts naturally turn to thetemple of Victory situated above the grotto of the Luper-cal. The ancients, indeed, affirmed that the feast of Vic-tory, as well as that of the Lupercal, had been foundedby It seems as though we should connect withthese cults the statue of Valeria who, on
Ancient legends of Roman history . mm A ROMAN DIVINITY. (MAGAZINO COMUNALE, ROME) HORATII AND VALERII 167 then, that under the form of a cow were worshipped both thegoddess Vitellia and the goddess Vacuna, the Sabine god-dess of Victory.*7 And since Vitellia was connected withEvander and the Fauni, our thoughts naturally turn to thetemple of Victory situated above the grotto of the Luper-cal. The ancients, indeed, affirmed that the feast of Vic-tory, as well as that of the Lupercal, had been foundedby It seems as though we should connect withthese cults the statue of Valeria who, on the coins of that. family, was represented as riding upon a TheValerii, then, appear to have connected their origin withthe cult of this animal. Finally, as we shall see in a sub-sequent chapter, it was from a bull that the Roman familyof the Minucii traced their CHAPTER IX THE FABH AT THE RIVER CREMERA, AND THE SPARTANSAT THERMOPYLi; When, in the second century before our era, the patricianFabius undertook to write the annals of Roman history,a great part of the traditional material had already beenelaborated. Fabius and his contemporary Cincius Ali-mentus were (as is told us) the first Romans to write thehistory of their own city. But the same author who offers usthis notice also informs us that they were preceded by a longseries of Greek writers beginning with the end of the fifthcentury. Antiochus of Syracuse made mention of Rome asearly as c. 420 ; and also Callias and Timaeus, the cele-brated Syracusan historians, spoke more or less extensivelyabout Timseus, indeed, towa
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