Note 67 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Ovid, Fasti, iii. 273 sqq.; id., Metam. xv. 482 sqq.; Cicero, De legibus, i. 1. 4; Livy, i. 19. 5, i. 21. 3; Plutarch, Numa, 4, 8, 13, 15; Dionysius Halicarn. Antiquit. Roman. ii. 60 sq.; Juvenal, Sat. iii. 12; Lactantius, Divin. Inst. i. 22; Augustine, De civitate Dei, vii. 35; Servius on Virgil, Aen. vii. 763. Ovid, Livy, Lactantius, and Augustine speak of Egeria as the wife of Numa, whereas Juvenal and Servius call her his mistress. The language of Plutarch is somewhat ambiguous, but he uses the phrase γάμων θείων ἠξιωμένος (c. 4).