Egeria
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Egeria, nymph, legendary consort and instructor of Numa Pompilius.
She is mentioned in Livy XIX, XXI, Dionysius of Halicarnassus AR 2.61-2. Ennius, Ann. 119; Cic. De Legibus 1.1.4;Ovid, Fasti 3.154; 259-93; Martial 10.35 12-14; Juvenal, 3rd Satire 17.
[secondary sources: Green "Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia]
