Arician

The Arician withdrew from the meeting, uttering these reflections against the Roman king.

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

But yet in that land of his there is no Pompeian fig or Arician vegetable, no Tarentine rose, or pleasing coppice, or thick grove, or shady plane tree; all is for use rather than for pleasure, such as one ought rather to commend, but cares not to love.

Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

However, those illustrious men Lucius Philippus, who has a wife who came from Aricia, and Caius Marcellus, whose wife is the daughter of an Arician, may look to this; and I am quite sure that they have no regrets on the score of the dignity of those admirable women.

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Horses were excluded from the Arician grove and sanctuary because horses had killed Hippolytus.

Chapter 1. The King of the Wood. § 1. Diana and Virbius 1922

If then the civilised Greeks of Asia and Athens habitually sacrificed men whom they regarded as incarnate gods, there can be no inherent improbability in the supposition that at the dawn of history a similar custom was observed by the semibarbarous Latins in the Arician Grove.

Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece 1922

This does not imply that the Roman kings ever served as Kings of the Wood in the Arician grove, but only that they may originally have been invested with a sacred character of the same general kind, and may have held office on similar terms.

Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba. § 1. Numa and Egeria 1922

A Roman satirist uses the name Manius as typical of the beggars who lay in wait for pilgrims on the Arician slopes.

Chapter 1. The King of the Wood. § 1. Diana and Virbius 1922

Now grounds have been shown for believing that the priest of the Arician grove—the King of the Wood—personified the tree on which grew the Golden Bough.

Chapter 68. The Golden Bough 1922

But we cannot suppose that so barbarous a rule as that of the Arician priesthood was deliberately instituted by a league of civilised communities, such as the Latin cities undoubtedly were.

Chapter 1. The King of the Wood. § 1. Diana and Virbius 1922

But to clinch the argument, it is clearly desirable to prove that the custom of putting to death a human representative of a god was known and practised in ancient Italy elsewhere than in the Arician Grove.

Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece 1922