When the sacred stone of Magna Mater arrived in Rome in 204 BCE, the Galli accompanied it as the goddess's Phrygian priests. Claudia Quinta's miracle of freeing the grounded ship occurred as the Galli and the stone were being transported up the Tiber.
When Magna Mater's sacred stone arrived at Ostia in 204 BCE and the ship ran aground in the shallows, the accused matron Claudia Quinta seized the tow-rope and pulled the vessel free with miraculous ease, proving her chastity and the goddess's divine favor in a single act.
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