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Volume 13 · 92 words · 1797 Edition

(fab. hist.), the wife of Corniculus, was one of the attendants of Tanaquil 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 ob/cani forma virilis. 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-