1. IS it not because of a tale which is told in this maner: In old time a certeine woman being come thither for to adore and worship this goddesse, chaunced there to bee abused and suffer violence in her honor: and he who forced her, was torne in pieces by hounds: upon which accident, ever after, a certeine superstitious feare possessed mens heads, that they would not presume to goe into the said temple. 4. _Wherefore is it, that in other temples of_ Diana _men are woont ordinarily to set up and fasten Harts hornes; onely in that which is upon mount_ Aventine; _the hornes of oxen and other beefes are to be seen_. MAY it not be, that this is respective to the remembrance of an ancient occurrent that sometime befell? For reported it is that long since in the Sabines countrey, one _Antion Coratius_ had a cow, which grew to be exceeding faire and woonderfull bigge withall above any other: and a certeine wizard or soothsaier came unto him and said: How predestined it was that the citie which sacrificed that cow unto _Diana_ in the mount _Aventine_, should become most puissant and rule all _Italy_: This _Coratius_ therefore came to _Rome_ of a deliberate purpose to sacrifice the said cow accordingly: but a certaine houshold servant that he had, gave notice secretly unto king _Servius Tullius_ of this prediction delivered by the abovesaid soothsaier: whereupon _Servius_ acquainted the priest of _Diana_, _Cornelius_, with the matter: and therefore when _Antion_ _Coratius_ presented himselfe for to performe his sacrifice, _Cornelius_ advertised him, first to goe downe into the river, there to wash; for that the custome and maner of those that sacrificed was so to doe: now whiles _Antion_ was gone to wash himselfe in the river, _Servius_ steps into his place, prevented his returne, sacrificed the cow unto the goddesse, and nailed up the hornes when he had so done, within her temple. _Juba_ thus relateth this historie, and _Varro_ likewise, saving that _Varro_ expressely setteth not downe the name of _Antion_, neither doth he write that it was _Cornelius_ the priest, but the sexton onely of the church that thus beguiled the Sabine. 5. _Why are they who have beene falsly reported dead in a strange countrey, although they returne home alive, not received nor suffred to enter directly at the dores, but forced to climbe up to the tiles of the house, and so to get downe from the roufe into the house?_