A statue of Attus, with his head veiled, was erected in the comitium, upon the very steps on the left of the senate-house, on the spot where the transaction occurred.

They say that the whetstone also was deposited in the same place, that it might remain a monument of that miracle to posterity.

There certainly accrued so much honour to augury and the college of augurs, that nothing was undertaken either in peace or war without taking the auspices.

Assemblies of the people, the summoning of armies, and affairs of the greatest importance were put off, when the birds would not allow of them.

Nor did Tarquin then make any other alteration in the centuries of horse, except doubling the number of men in each of these corps, so that the three centuries consisted of one thousand eight hundred knights.