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Because of the wrath of Jupiter TarpeiusThat is, Capitolinus (e.g. Ovid, Fasti, vi. 34). the Tiber coursed through the middle of the Forum, broke open a very large abyss and engulfed many houses. An oracle was given that this would end if they threw in their precious possession. As they were casting in gold and silver. Curtius, a youth of noble family, apprehended the meaning of the oracle, and, reasoning that human life is more precious, he hurled himself on horseback into the abyss, and saved his people from their miseries. Cf. Livy, vii. 6; or Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, xiv. 11. The story is often referred to. So Aristeides in the fortieth book of his Italian History.
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When the captains that accompanied Polyneices were feasting, an eagle swooped down and carried the spear of Amphiaraüs up to a height and then let it drop. The spear became fixed in the earth and was changed into a laurel. The next day, when the captains were fighting, at that very spot Amphiaraüs was swallowed up with his chariot, where now is the city that is called Harma. City of the Chariot; cf. Pausanias, ix. 19. 4, and the scholium on Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, ii. 11. 1. So Trisimachus in the third book of his Founding of Cities.
