At sacred doorposts were hanging weapons took in the war curved axes, coconuts, crests of helmets, large ironmongery for doors, javelins, and shields and beaks briskly to the hulls. In the vestibule in order ,arranged there are the effigies of the ancient fathers carved on cedar: Italus, Sabinus (first lover of slow vine with the curved grubs under the bust) and the old Saturn, and the statue of the god Janus, and the other kings Aborigines for their country in war, fighting, suffered wounds.
The Aeneid passage is still a source of a lot of information that are worth knowing Virgil describes the temple of God Mamerte that stood high on a rock, and that had been the home of the Rex Picus, here it gathered the curia and the patres held the solemn banquets after ceremonies. In the seventh book of the Aeneid, Virgil tells of the legend of Picus and how the Magician Circe turned it into a green woodpecker, one of the sacred bird of Rome, which then would help the wolf to breastfeed twins so it is often present in representations of Lupercal. The Nymph Canens seeing that Picus didn't return went to look for him into the woods until, exhausted for searching, arrived on the Tiber bank gave a last song to love lost and dissipated in the air. Picus to catch the animal walked away from the group but when he was in front of Circe she resumed hers form of woman and tried to seduce him Picus rejected Circe who, angry with the king guilty of not wanting to love, turned him into a green woodpecker. The myth describes him as a leader who loved hunting and married with Canens nymph one day while he was in the woods with his men was seen by the Magician Circe that changed into a boar to be able to approach him. Pico was one of the kings of the archaic Latium, son of Saturn and Feronia, he founded the towns of Alba Longa and Laurentum and therefore it is an ancestor of the King Latino and of Romulus and Remus.
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