In the Aeneid, the Etruscan Arruns is killed by this goddess's follower Opis in punishment for killing her favorite, a leader of the Volscians said to be capable of running over the fields of grain without bruising the crops.
In the Aeneid, the Etruscan Arruns is killed by this goddess's follower Opis in punishment for killing her favorite, a leader of the Volscians said to be capable of running over the fields of grain without bruising the crops. The minor god Virbius, identified with the resurrected Greek Hippolytus, was associated with this goddess. Her priest at Aricia, whose title was rex nemorensis, was a fugitive slave; as King of the Grove, he had to kill his predecessor in single combat initiated by plucking a bough. FTP, name this Roman goddess who favored the chaste warrior maiden Camilla, identified with the Greek Artemis.
In the Aeneid, the Etruscan Arruns is killed by this goddess's follower Opis in punishment for killing her favorite, a leader of the Volscians said to be capable of running over the fields of grain without bruising the crops.
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