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EGERIA , an See also:ancient See also:Italian goddess of springs. Two distinct localities were regarded as sacred to her,—the See also:grove of See also:Diana Nemorensis at See also:Aricia, and a See also:spring in the immediate See also:neighbour-See also:hood of See also:Rome at the Porta See also:Capena. She derives her See also:chief importance from her legendary connexion with See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Numa, who had frequent interviews with her and consulted her in regard to his religious legislation (See also:Livy i. 19; See also:Juvenal iii. 12). These meetings took See also:place on the spot where the sacred See also:shield had fallen from See also:heaven, and here Numa dedicated a grove to-the Camenae, like Egeria deities of springs. After the See also:death of Numa, Egeria was said to have fled into the grove of Aricia, where she was changed into a spring for having interrupted the See also:rites of Diana by her See also:lamentations (See also:Ovid, Metam. xv. 479). At Aricia
there was also a Manius Egerius, a male counterpart of Egeria. Her connexion with Diana Nemorensis, herself a See also:birth goddess, is confirmed by the fact that her aid was invoked by pregnant See also:women. She also possessed the See also:gift of prophecy; and the statement (See also:Dion. Halic. ii. 6o) that she was one of the See also:Muses is due to her connexion with the Camenae, whose See also:worship was displaced by them.
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