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Such dramatic weddings of gods and goddesses, as we shall see presently, were carried out as solemn religious rites in many parts of the ancient world; hence there is no intrinsic improbability in the supposition that the sacred grove at Nemi may have been the scene of an annual ceremony of this sort.
As one couple panting and rosy retires, another fresh one takes its place, while the bystanders play on the accordion the whirling, circling, never-ending tune of the Tarantella, which would "put a spirit of youth in everything." If you are tired of the festival, roam up a few paces out of the crowd, and you stand upon the brink of Lake Nemi.
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In this last case the king in fact holds office on condition of running for his life once a year, just as the King of Calicut in later times held office on condition of defending his life against all comers once every twelve years, and just as the priest of Nemi held office on condition of defending himself against any assault at any time.
He strolled on beside her, poking into the niches, and talking, as the whim took him, pouring out upon her indeed some of the many thoughts and fancies which had been generated in him by those winter visits to Nemi that he and Eleanor had made together. Eleanor loitered behind, looking at the strawberry gatherers.
IX TITO's WARNING Aspects of Rome The Via Giulia The Tiber by Day The Gardens The Villa Medici -The Squares The Fountains Poussin and the Campagna The Campo Verano The Trastevere The "Palaces" Aristocracy, Middle Class, Democracy The Tiber by Night XI POISON! Frascati A Cardinal and his Creature Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Nemi Across the Campagna An Osteria Destiny on the March
The bloody ritual which legend ascribed to the Tauric Diana is familiar to classical readers; it is said that every stranger who landed on the shore was sacrificed on her altar. But transported to Italy, the rite assumed a milder form. Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs.
And again, on a never-to-be-forgotten evening on the Nemi lake, when, on descending from Genzano to the strawberry-farm that now holds the site of the famous temple of Diana Nemorensis, we found a beautiful youth at the fattoria, who for a few pence undertook to show us the fragments that remain. Mr. James asked his name.
I'm sure it was bad! 'I don't know why you say that? She knit her brows a little. 'If I shut my eyes, I seemed to be walking with them. And so with your goat-herd. I'm certain it was that tree! she said, pointing to the tree, her bright smile breaking. 'And the grove was here. And the people came running down from the village on the cliff, she turned her hand towards Nemi.
Plutarch compares the legend with other tales of the loves of goddesses for mortal men, such as the love of Cybele and the Moon for the fair youths Attis and Endymion. According to some, the trysting-place of the lovers was not in the woods of Nemi but in a grove outside the dripping Porta Capena at Rome, where another sacred spring of Egeria gushed from a dark cavern.
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