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EVANDER, king of Arcadia, founded a colony on the spot where Rome later stood. He told Aeneas how Hercules slew the monster Cacus, which had been ravaging the countryside (Aeneid, VII.193-270). Ovid's version appears in Fasti I.543-586.
Cacus's death appeases Evander, Bo IV, Metr 7.52-54. [Cacus: Ercules]
Ovid, Fasti, ed. and trans. J.G. Frazer, 40-43; Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, II: 72-79.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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