The name of the Allia was ill-omened because it was on the banks of this stream that the Gauls under Brennus inflicted a crushing defeat on the Romans in 390 B.C.
XCVIII.

The Oscans were one of the old non-Latin tribes of Italy.
Some fragments of their language still remain.
CIII.

The legend was that Hippolytus, the son of Theseus, king of Athens, was loved by his step-mother Phaedra.

Hippolytus rejected her love, and she killed herself, leaving a writing accusing him of having tempted her.

Theseus in his wrath besought Poseidon to slay his son, and the latter sent a monster from the sea, which terrified the horses of Hippolytus so that they ran away and killed their master.
Aesculapius raised him to life, however, and Diana concealed him in the grove of Aricia under the name of Virbius.