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The sanctuary consisted of the sacred wood (lucus), the temple and a large altar: the temple of an Italic plan has some of the ashlar foundations and parts of the facade with fluted columns, the architrave and the tympanum, all likely to be related to the reconstruction following
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without being offended; and a large number of men compete for it, as well for the fair that is celebrated there every year, as for the spectacle just mentioned."
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