mercoledì, 18 maggio 2011

Gens Cornelius – Genealogica CLXXXIII

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it was the etruscan priest Cornelius that sacrified the holy cow, holifying the Temple of Diana, upon the Aventine Hill, to mark the foundation of the Latin League, in the 7th c B.C., as it is said of the prophet, that:

That man’s city was destined to become the greatest in all of Italy and its mistress.

Cornelius had of course stolen the cow from a sabian farmer, but once the cow had been sacrified of the hand of Cornelius, Rome became the city of all eternity.

It still is,



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