Identifier: ancientlegendsof00pais (find matches)
Title: Ancient legends of Roman history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Pais, Ettore, 1856-1939 Cosenza, Mario Emilio, 1880-1966, tr
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nowledge the supremacy of Rome. But suchsupremacy was not attained till a far later period, and until340-338 B.C. the Romans continued to participate in theleague which gathered round the spring of the goddess Fe-rentina.37 Moreover, the cult of Diana Aventinensis (as weshall see shortly) was closely connected with that of DianaAricina. The Aricini, according to the official Roman tradi-tion, ceded their cults to the Romans only towards 338B.C.38 If we should wish to go to a still greater antiquityin Roman tradition, in search of an event worthy of histori-cal belief, we should find no other date than 443 B.C. Inthat year the Romans intervened in the affairs of Ariciaand of Ardea, and seized territory which later, perhaps,formed part of the tribe Scaptia. This tribe, however, wasformed only in the year 332 B.C.39 It is likewise stated that Servius Tullius, after having con-quered the Etruscans, erected a temple to Fortuna on theright bank of the Tiber, and a second one to Mater Matuta
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SERVIUS TULLIUS 141 in the Forum Boarium. From other accounts, however,we gather that the latter was erected only in the time ofFurius Camillus, and the former by the consul Carvilius ineven later times.40 Servius, then, was placed in close rela-tion with the temple of Fortuna and with the Forum adjacentto the temple of Mater Matuta, because certain traditions(which we shall examine more minutely) considered himthe special lover of Fortuna. We shall not proceed furtherin these comparisons. We shall merely add that the ver-sion originally set forth by Greek annalists (according towhich Servius Tullius was the first to coin money) is inopposition to all that we know of numismatics. For, notonly actual and real copper money, but even the as signatumis assigned by numismatists to the fourthcentury, thus prov-ing beyond doubt the artistic elaboration of this legend.41 The same is true of the Servian wall, or better, of theagger with which he was supposed to have strengthenedRome. A series

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