"Is it with impure hands to offer a sacrifice to Diana?
Why dost not thou first wash thyself in running water?
The Tiber runs along in the bottom of that valley." The stranger, being seized with a scruple of conscience, and desirous of having every thing done in due form, that the event might answer the prediction, from the temple went down to the Tiber.

In the mean time the priest sacrificed the cow to Diana, which gave great satisfaction to the king, and to the whole state.
[Footnote 56: _Temple of Diana_.

Built on the summit of the Aventine mount towards the Tiber.

On its brazen pillar were engraved the laws of the treaty, and which were still extant in the time of Augustus.] 46.

Servius, though he had now acquired an indisputable right to the kingdom by long possession, yet as he heard that expressions were sometimes thrown out by young Tarquin, importing, "That he held the crown without the consent of the people," having first secured their good will by dividing among them, man by man, the lands taken from their enemies, he ventured to propose the question to the people, whether they "chose and ordered that he should be king," and was declared king with such unanimity, as had not been observed in the election of any of his predecessors.