rex nemorensis

Mary Beard

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5567

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rex nemorensis

Mary Beard

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5567
Published online: 07 March 2016

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Rex nemorensis, the ‘king of the grove’, i.e. *Diana's grove at Nemi near *Aricia, in Latium. This priest was unique among religious officials of the Roman world, in being an escaped slave who acquired office by killing his predecessor, after issuing a challenge by plucking a branch from a particular tree in the grove. See Strabo 5. 3. 12, 239; Suet. Calig.

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