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While the Carthaginians were treating an alliance
with the Sicilians against the Romans, the Roman general
Metellus was observed to omit sacrificing only to Vesta,
who revenged herself upon him by sending a cross wind
to the navy. But Caius Julius, a soothsayer, being consulted in the matter, gave answer, that this obstacle would
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be removed upon the general's sacrificing his daughter
so that he was forced to produce his daughter Metella for
a sacrifice. But Vesta had compassion for her, and so
sent her away to Lamusium, substituting a heifer in her
stead, and made a priestess of her to the dragon that is
worshipped in that place.—So Pythocles, in the Third
Book of his Italian History.
Something like this happened to Iphigenia in Aulis, a
city of Boeotia.—See Meryllus, in the First Book of his
Boeotic History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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