Niger Lapis

Antiquitates Romanae

Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Some say also that the stone lion which stood in the principal part of the Forum near the rostra was placed over the body of Faustulus, who was buried by those who found him in the place where he fell.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Roman Antiquities (Volume I: Books 1-2.), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 319, translated by Earnest Carey, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1937, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

"Scholia codicis rescripti Veronensis in Vergilii Bucolica, Georgia, Aeneidem", 16.13-14
anon.

Antiquitates Romanae, 3.1.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

De Verborum Significatu, 184L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

Niger Lapis
Richardson, L. jr

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