haec Italos induxit avos vel fama vel error, Martia Romuleo celebrarent ut sacra campo, utque Palatinis Capitolia condita saxis signarent titulo proavi Iovis atque Pelasgae Palladis et Libyca Iunonem ex arce vocarent, cognatos de Marte deos, Veneris quoque nudum accirent proceres Erycino e vertice signum, utque deum mater Phrygia veheretur ab Ida, Bacchica de viridi peterentur ut orgia Naxo.
This legend or error it was that led our Italian ancestors to keep rites of Mars on the Field at Rome, to inscribe on the Capitol which they built on the rocks of their Palatine city, the names of their great-grandsire Jupiter and the Grecian Pallas, and bring Juno from her stronghold in Africa, deities of Mars kin; and it made their leaders fetch the nude figure of Venus from the peak of Eryx, carry the mother of the gods from Phrygian Ida and import the wild revels of Bacchus from green Naxos.
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