A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Acca, or Arca-Laurentia

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ACCA, OR ARCA-LAURENTIA,

Was wife of the shepherd Faustulus, and nurse to Remus and Romulus. She was defied by the Romans, to whom the flamen of Jupiter once a year offered a sacrifice, on a holiday instituted to her honour. She lived about B. C. 760.