The great mother of the gods . s, and Vestals in the front. Theship is drawn into the mouth of the stream by cables, butin vain are the efforts to move it far; the water is low, and 18Livy XXIX 10-14. 19 Ovid Fast. IV 178 sqq. 20Verg. A en. IX 80 sqq. 21 Herodian I 11, 3. 22 Ovid. Fast. IV 267-270. 228 EULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. the ship becomes fast in the marshy shallow. Confusionseizes the multitude at the omen; the ship is as firm as anisland. Claudia Quinta, of noble birth and as beautiful asshe is noble, chaste but not untouched by slander, stepsforth from the line of mothe
The great mother of the gods . s, and Vestals in the front. Theship is drawn into the mouth of the stream by cables, butin vain are the efforts to move it far; the water is low, and 18Livy XXIX 10-14. 19 Ovid Fast. IV 178 sqq. 20Verg. A en. IX 80 sqq. 21 Herodian I 11, 3. 22 Ovid. Fast. IV 267-270. 228 EULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. the ship becomes fast in the marshy shallow. Confusionseizes the multitude at the omen; the ship is as firm as anisland. Claudia Quinta, of noble birth and as beautiful asshe is noble, chaste but not untouched by slander, stepsforth from the line of mothers, daughters, and Vestals,23dips her hands into the waters of the Tiber, sprinklesthrice her head, lifts thrice her palms to the heavens,kneels to the goddess, strong in the consciousness of herown purity, and with hair no wing loose, calls upon her forvindication from the charges of her enemies. Then rising,with only slight exertion she draws the sacred craft up thestream, while the multitude sends cries of joy to the The Miracle of Claudia. Relief in the Capitoline Museum. [After Baumeister.] But night falls before they have reached Kome, and theyhalt at a bend of the river. The following morning they n Julian Imp. Or. V 160 and Aurel. Vict. Be Viris Illust. 46 call Claudiaa Vestal, confusing her with Claudia Vestalis, daughter of Appius Claudi-us Pulcher, Consul 143 B. C. Herodian 111 mentions a Vestal as per-forming the miracle, but gives no name. Others are consistent in givingher merely as Claudia Quinta. Lact. II 7, 12, says of her: impudica e§-set habita ob nimios corporis cultus; and Appian Hann. 56 tells us thatshe was charged with adultery, but not yet judged. SHOWERMAN THE GREAT MOTHER. 229 burn incense, sacrifice a heifer before the garlanded stern,and continue the journey. Arrived at the Almo, a smallstream which flows into the Tiber not far south of Rome,a hoary priest clad in shining vestments laves the goddessand the sacred utensils in its waters, whi
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