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Acca Larentia according affirmed annals archaic Ardea Aricia authors Capitoline Capitolium Capua century B.C. character Cincius Comitium connected considered consul cult deeds Diana DION Dionysius divinities earliest Roman elements Etruscan Fabii Fabius Pictor fact Fasti Faunus Faustulus feast FESTUS ficus Ruminalis fifth century Forum fourth century Gauls goddess Greek Hercules hill Horatius inscription Jupiter kings Lares later Latin Latium legend LIVY Lupercal Lupercalia Minucius Mommsen monuments myth origin OVID Palatine patrician period plebeian PLINY PLUT Plutarch political pomerium Porta proves referred regard represented Röm Roma Roma Quadrata Roman annalists Roman history Rome Sabines sacred Saxum Tarpeium scholars Septimontium sepulchre Servilius Servius Tullius Spurius Mælius statue stele Storia di Roma story Tarpeia Tarpeian Rock Tarquinii Tarquinius Tarquins Tatius tegula temple Tiber tion Titus Tatius tomb of Romulus topographical tradition Valerius VARRO Velabrum Velia vestal Vicus Vulcan worship καὶ
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Page 253 - Chief among the teachers of such doctrines was the man who at the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth century BC established a community of yellow-robed followers, and was known by them as the Buddha, the Enlightened or Awakened.
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