Note 69 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

Juvenal, Sat. iii. 10 sqq.; Livy, i. 21. 3. As to the position of this grove and spring see O. Gilbert, Geschichte und Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum, i. 109 sqq., ii. pp. 152 sqq.; O. Richter, Topographie der Stadt Rom² (Munich, 1902), pp. 342 sq. According to the latter writer, the valley of Egeria was outside the Servian wall, at the foot of the Caelian Mount, and is now traversed by the streets Via delle Mole di S. Sisto and Via della Ferratella. He identifies the sacred spring with a copious source at the Villa Fonseca. On the other hand, Statius (Sylvae, v. 3. 290 sq.), Lactantius (Divin. Inst. iii. 22), and Servius (on Virgil, vii. 763) held that Numa’s Egeria was not at Rome but at Nemi. The grove of Egeria is now popularly identified with a little wood called the Bosco Sacro, which stands in a commanding situation to the left of the Appian Way, about a mile and a half from Rome (Baedeker’s Central Italy and Rome,¹³ p. 378).