Numa

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.17 Numa

  Numa Pompilius, Rome's pious second king, beloved of the nymph Egeria.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.2 Numa, your mother's ancestor

  Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, claimed as the maternal ancestor of Cotta Maximus's line.

• The Festivals §proem Numa

  Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, who set January and February before the old months.

• The Festivals §4.15 King Numa

  Rome's second king, who learned the remedy of the Fordicidia from Faunus by dream-incubation.

• The Festivals §5.proem Numa

  Rome's second king, founder of much of its religious cult.

• The Festivals §6.9 Numa

  Rome's second king, builder of Vesta's round temple and founder of much of her cult.

• Metamorphoses §15.471 famed Numa

  Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, the pious lawgiver who succeeded Romulus.

• Metamorphoses §15.497 wept for Numa

  Numa Pompilius, dying old after leading Rome to the arts of peace.