person
Ilia
also: the Vestal, Vestalis, Rhea Silvia
Vestal mother of Romulus and Remus in Ennius's Annales. Her terrified dream, narrated to her sister, is quoted at length by Quintus in De Divinatione 1.40-41 as a model poetic dream.
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.40 that Vestal in Ennius
Ilia, the Vestal virgin who in legend bore Romulus and Remus. Her dream, quoted from Ennius's Annales, is offered as a poetic specimen of true dreaming.