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ACCA LARENTIA (not Laurentia)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 111 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACCA LARENTIA (not Laurentia) , in Roman legend, the wife of the shepherd Faustulus, who saved the lives of the twins
Romulus
  and Remus after they had been thrown into the Tiber. She had twelve sons, and on the death of one of them
Romulus
  took his place, and with the remaining eleven founded the college of the Arval
brothers
  (Fratres Arvales). The tradition that Romulus and Remus were suckled by a
wolf
  has been explained by the suggestion that Larentia was called lupa (" courtesan," literally " she-
wolf
  ") on account of her immoral character (Livy i. 4; Ovid,
Fasti
 , iii. 55). According to another account, Larentia was a beautiful girl, whom Hercules won in a game of dice (Macrobius i. so;
Plutarch
 , Romulus, 4, 5, Quaest. Rom. 35; Aulus Gellius vi. 7). The god advised her to marry the first man she met in the
street
 , who proved to be a wealthy
Etruscan
  named Tarutius. She inherited all his property and bequeathed it to the Roman
people
 , who out of gratitude instituted in her honour a yearly festival called Larentalia (Dec. 23). According to some, Acca Larentia was the
mother
  of the Lares, and, like Ceres, Tellus, Flora and others, symbolized the fertility of the earthin particular the city lands and their crops.
See Mommsen, " Die echte and die falsche Larentia," in Romische Forschungen, ii. 1879; E. Pais, Ancient Legends of Roman History (Eng. trans. 1906), whose views on the subject are criticized by W. W. Fowler in W. H. D. Rouse's The Year's
Work
  in Classical Studies (1907) ; C. Pascal, Studii di antichita e Mitologia (1896).


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