2012, ISBN: 9781130996289

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...and by the Romans, Carmenta(55) Faunus, the son or descendant of Mars,(56) was king of the Aborigines when the Arcadian expedition of Evander arrived;(57) he received them hospitably, and assigned them as much land as they wished to take. The Arcadian colony of Evander was not (as Dionysius informs us) sent out by the common consent of the state, but was a secession of a part of the people produced by civil discord:(58) the seceders were only numerous (55) Themis, or Nicostrata, or Carmenta, was the mother of Evander; Plut. Qusest. Horn. c. 56; Strab. v. 3, § 3. Carmenta, as the mother of Evander, and a prophetess who predicted the fortune of Rome;.Sin. viii. 333-41; Ovid, Fast. i. 461-586; Livy, i. 7; Script, de Orig. G. R. c. 5; Plut. Rom. 20; Solinus, i. 1, § 10, 13. She is likewise alluded to in the explanatory legend of Fast. i. 617-636. The Carmentis saxa on the Capitol are mentioned in Livy, v. 47; on the Porta Carmentalis, see Becker, vol. i. p. 936-9; and concerning Carmenta, Hartung, Rel. der Romer, vol. ii. p. 198; Klausen, Eneas und die Penaten, p. 883. According to one account, Mercury is not the father of Evander, but of his mother Nicostrata; Serv..32n. viii. 130. Paus. viii. 43, 2, says that Evander was the son of Mercury, and of a nymph, the daughter of the river Ladon, and that he was the first of the Arcadians both in wisdom and military valour. According to another story, Evander is the son of Echemus, a mythical king of Arcadia, and of Timandra, the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda; Serv. JEn. viii. 130; Apollod. iii. 10, § 6. The marriage of Echemus and Timandra was mentioned by Hesiod. Schol. Pind. 01. xi. 79 (Fragm. 8. ed. Gottling). If the notice in Servius, ib., is correct, the affinity of Evander was laid down by Hesi... Weight:0.92 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 3/6/2012 0:00:00<