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Edward Togo Salmon; T. W. Potter

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6001

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Soracte

Edward Togo Salmon
and T. W. Potter

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6001
Published online: 07 March 2016

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The isolated mountain 691 m. (2,267 ft.) high to the north of Rome, from which it is sometimes visible. Celebrated by *Horace (Odes 1. 9), there were priests here called Hirpi, resembling Roman Luperci (cf. Lupercalia). They worshipped *Apollo Soranus by walking over hot coals (Plin.

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Roman Myth and Religion

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