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Ch. XL THROUGH ITALY. 381
Exquiritque auditque virum monuments prioram.
Turn Rex Evandrus, Romance conditor arcis
Haec nemora indigenae Fauni nymphaeque tenebant.
310.
From the Palatine we passed to the Aventine
Mount well known for the unpropitious augury
of Remus, and at an earlier period for the resi-
dence of Cacus, and the victory of Hercules,
both so well described by Virgil,
---Ter toium fervidus iru
Lustrat Aventini montein ; ter saxea tentat
Limina nequicquam ; ter fessus valle resedit.
Stabat acuta silix, praecisis undique saxis,
Speluncae dorso insurgens, altissima visa,
Dirarum nidis domus opportuna volucrum.
JEn. viii. ‘23®,
Here also stood the temple of Diana, erected in
the joint names of all the Latin tribes, in imita-
tion of the celebrated temple of that goddess at
Ephesus built at the common expense of the
cities of Asia. The erection of the temple of
Diana at Rome by the Latins in the reign of
Servius Tullius, that is, at a time when the
Latins were independent and had frequently
disputed with the Romans for pre-eminence, was
considered as a tacit renunciation of their pre-
tensions, and an acknowledgment that Rome
was the centre and the capital of the Latin
nation at large. The sacrifice of a celebrated
Exquiritque auditque virum monuments prioram.
Turn Rex Evandrus, Romance conditor arcis
Haec nemora indigenae Fauni nymphaeque tenebant.
310.
From the Palatine we passed to the Aventine
Mount well known for the unpropitious augury
of Remus, and at an earlier period for the resi-
dence of Cacus, and the victory of Hercules,
both so well described by Virgil,
---Ter toium fervidus iru
Lustrat Aventini montein ; ter saxea tentat
Limina nequicquam ; ter fessus valle resedit.
Stabat acuta silix, praecisis undique saxis,
Speluncae dorso insurgens, altissima visa,
Dirarum nidis domus opportuna volucrum.
JEn. viii. ‘23®,
Here also stood the temple of Diana, erected in
the joint names of all the Latin tribes, in imita-
tion of the celebrated temple of that goddess at
Ephesus built at the common expense of the
cities of Asia. The erection of the temple of
Diana at Rome by the Latins in the reign of
Servius Tullius, that is, at a time when the
Latins were independent and had frequently
disputed with the Romans for pre-eminence, was
considered as a tacit renunciation of their pre-
tensions, and an acknowledgment that Rome
was the centre and the capital of the Latin
nation at large. The sacrifice of a celebrated