Ilia, or Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus by Mars (Livy, 1. 3-4), and, according to the legend followed by Horace, daughter of Aeneas, might be called the bride of the Tiber, into which she was thrown (on one tradition) by order of King Amulius. The Julian gens claimed to be descended from her, and so, by a far-fetched conceit, the wife-doting stream is said to avenge the wrong done her by the assassination of her great descendant Julius Caesar.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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