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    Numa Pompilius (Classical Latin: [ˈnʊma pɔmˈpɪliʊs]; c. 753–672 BC; reigned 715–672 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus after...
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    role in the early history of Rome as a divine consort and counselor of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to whom she imparted laws and rituals pertaining...
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    dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion...
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    Rome's first pontifex maximus Numa Marcius) and Pompilia (daughter of Numa Pompilius). Ancus Marcius was thus the grandson of Numa and therefore a Sabine. According...
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    (h)ɔsˈtiːliʊs]; r. 672–640 BC) was the legendary third king of Rome. He succeeded Numa Pompilius and was succeeded by Ancus Marcius. Unlike his predecessor, Tullus was...
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    "Seven Kings of Rome". Tatius had one daughter, Tatia, who married Numa Pompilius (Romulus' successor), and one son, who was the ancestor of the patrician...
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  • philosopher Numa Pompilius (753–673 BC), second king of Rome Numa S. Trivas (fl. 1899–1949), Russian-American art historian and collector Numa Sadoul (born...
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    and was believed to have been the best augur of all. Likewise, King Numa Pompilius instituted the pontiffs and through them developed the foundations of...
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  • illustrious of the Pompilii at Rome was Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. By all accounts, Pompilius was a Sabine, renowned for his wisdom, and...
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    institutions; the death or apotheosis of Romulus, and the succession of Numa Pompilius.[citation needed] According to Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus were...
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    have derived from the Spartans. Plutarch also mentions, in the Life of Numa Pompilius, "Sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians"...
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    Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams (February 17, 1885 – August 29, 1940) was a dean at Howard University College of Medicine from 1929 until his death, in 1940...
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  • reign of the second King of Rome — Numa Pompilius. c. 715 BC—Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends. 713 BC—Numa Pompilius, King of Rome, reforms the Roman...
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    Lucretii were one of the most ancient gentes, and the second wife of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, was named Lucretia. The first of the Lucretii...
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    takes into account that the college was established by Sabine king Numa Pompilius and the institution is Italic: the expressions pontis and pomperias...
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  • Numa Marcius, son of Marcus, was the first Pontifex Maximus of Ancient Rome. He was appointed by the King Numa Pompilius who assigned to him the entire...
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    Mart., the 6th day before the March kalends.) Romulus's successor Numa Pompilius was then usually credited with a revised calendar that divided winter...
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    Lives, Romulus Livy, ab urbe condita libri, I Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Numa Married his daughter, Hostilia Plutach's Parallel Lives vol. 1 p. 379 Livy...
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    accepted versions of Rome's beginnings the city's legendary second king, Numa Pompilius, built its first Temple of Vesta, appointed its first pair of Vestals...
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  • like a mouse"). Plutarch, who describes Tacita as a Muse, states that Numa Pompilius credited Tacita for his oracular insight and taught the Romans to worship...
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    incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, contains unique information about the early Roman...
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  • of the elders or Senate of the Roman Kingdom. After an interregnum Numa Pompilius succeeded to Romulus: as it will happen for each of his successors an...
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    ancient Rome. The gens was of great antiquity, and claimed descent from Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. Its members held the highest offices of the...
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    when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created...
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  • of the Sabine women by Romulus's men, and in the Sabine ethnicity of Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, to whom are attributed many of Rome's religious...
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    in ancient Roman religion, supposed to have been introduced by King Numa Pompilius. They were twelve patrician youths dressed as archaic warriors with...
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    Roman culture, and the growth of Rome through conflict and alliance. Numa Pompilius, the Sabine second king of Rome who consorted with the nymph Egeria...
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  • attributed to the Sabine Numa Pompilius, in the eleventh year of his reign as the second king of Rome. The combined presence of Numa and the flamen Quirinalis...
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  • Roman calendar, before Ianuarius and Februarius were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year (the year...
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    with omens and auspices. Plutarch in his Parallel Lives mention that Numa Pompilius made January the first month in the calendar instead of March by the...
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