Ancient legends of Roman history . , that the area adjoin-ing to and beneath the Palatine, on the side towards theVelabrum, was devoted to the same purposes as the slopesof the Velia and the Capitoline. In other words, they wereoccupied by those sepulchres which were wont to adorn thegates and the roads of ancient cities,—sepulchres of which atRome, and elsewhere, we are to-day finding such The mother of the Lares, and, at the same time, the god-dess of the earth, was the protectress of all the Roman ter-ritory. Thus it is readily understood how the legend aroseof the donat
Ancient legends of Roman history . , that the area adjoin-ing to and beneath the Palatine, on the side towards theVelabrum, was devoted to the same purposes as the slopesof the Velia and the Capitoline. In other words, they wereoccupied by those sepulchres which were wont to adorn thegates and the roads of ancient cities,—sepulchres of which atRome, and elsewhere, we are to-day finding such The mother of the Lares, and, at the same time, the god-dess of the earth, was the protectress of all the Roman ter-ritory. Thus it is readily understood how the legend aroseof the donation of land to the Romans by Acca. Theselands, according to our texts (which, perhaps, are corrupt),were the territories of Semurium, Turax, Lintirium andSolinium. Precisely where they were is not told us. Theterritory of Turax recalls that Tarutius who gave his landsto Acca. In even greater degree it reminds us of thatGaia Taracia who, according to a similar version, leftto the Romans the Campus Tiberinus,—that is to say, the. ACCA LARENTIA 79 Campus Martius. From a vague, yet sufficiently secure,statement of Cicero we gather that the ager Semuriummust not have been distant from the Campus Martius. In-asmuch as Acca Larentia was placed in connection withthe Arval Brothers by the ancients themselves, the suspicionmay, perhaps, be entertained that the Semones were thedivinities invoked by the Arval Brothers together with theLares. Semurium, therefore, may have been the name ofthe territory sacred to the Semones. We cannot definemore closely the limits of this region, and still less indicate,even in a vague manner, where the territories of Lintiriumand Solinium may have Bearing in mind the region occupied by the sepulchre ofAcca, however, it would seem obvious to believe that shedonated to the Roman people all the originally marshy ter-ritory of the Velabrum. Similarly, the nymph or vestalTarpeia (or Taracia, or even Fufetia) was supposed tohave donated the equally ma
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