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Cassius Dio, Roman History, 48.43.4

nan Now many events of a portentous nature had occurred even before this, such as the spouting of olive oil on the bank of the Tiber, and many also at this time. Thus the hut of Romulus was burned as a result of some ritual which the pontifices were performing in it; a statue of Virtus, which stood before one of the gates, fell upon its face, and certain persons, becoming inspired by the Mother of the Gods, declared that the goddess was angry with them.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Livy, History, 45.35.3 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
2. Ovid, Fasti, 3.183-3.186 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 3.183. If you ask where my son’s palace was 3.184. See there, that house made of straw and reeds. 3.185. He snatched the gifts of peaceful sleep on straw 3.186. Yet from that same low bed he rose to the stars.
3. Seneca The Elder, Controversies, 1.6.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
4. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 2.1.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Tacitus, Annals, 13.58 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 13.58.  In the same year, the tree in the Comitium, known as the Ruminalis, which eight hundred and thirty years earlier had sheltered the infancy of Remus and Romulus, through the death of its boughs and the withering of its stem, reached a stage of decrepitude which was regarded as a portent, until it renewed its verdure in fresh shoots.
6. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 43.14.6, 49.43.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 43.14.6.  And they decreed that a chariot of his should be placed on the Capitol facing the statue of Jupiter, that his statue in bronze should be mounted upon a likeness of the inhabited world, with an inscription to the effect that he was a demigod, and that his name should be inscribed upon the Capitol in place of that of Catulus on the ground that he had completed this temple after undertaking to call Catulus to account for the building of it. 49.43.5.  Besides doing this Agrippa drove the astrologers and charlatans from the city. During these same days a decree was passed that no one belonging to the senatorial class should be tried for piracy, and so those who were under any charge at the time were set free, and some were given a free hand to practice their villainy in the future.
7. Vergil, Aeneis, 8.654 8.654. to the Rutulian land, to find defence

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agrippina the younger,nero murders	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
astrologer	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
augustus,and romulus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
capitol	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
casa romuli	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
cuno,j.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
frugalitas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
heroön	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
jex-blake,k.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
lehmann,k.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
livia	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
macdonald,s.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
magna mater	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
museum,and national identity	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
museum,as an agent for social control	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
museum,modern theories of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
octavian	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
ogulnius gallus,cn.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
ogulnius gallus,q.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
palatine	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
pietas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
pliny the elder	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
pontiffs	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
rogoff,i.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
rome,area capitolina	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,burns	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,casa romuli	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,casa romuli on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,comitium	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,ficus ruminalis	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,palatine hill,casa romuli on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,palatine hill	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
rome,temple of divus augustus,martial on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
rome,the arx	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
romulus,his tomb	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
romulus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166; Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
sellers,e.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
sherman,d. j.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
sorcerers'	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
trojans,and caesar	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 24
victoria	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
vipsanius agrippa,m.	Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 241
virtus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166
vitruvius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 166