OCRISIA (fab. hist.), the wife of Corniculus, was one of the attendants of Tanquil the wife of Tarquinius Priscus. As she was throwing into the flames for offerings some of the meats that were served on the table of Tarquin, she suddenly saw, as is reported, in the fire what Ovid calls obscani forma virili. She informed the queen of it; and when by her command she had approached near it, she conceived a son who was named Servius Tullius, and was educated in the king's family. He afterwards succeeded to the va-
Octaeteris cant throne. Some suppose that Vulcan had assumed that form which was presented to the eyes of Oerisia, and that this god was the father of the sixth king of Rome.