Acca Larentia married the wealthy Etruscan Tarutius after Hercules, pleased by her company won in a dice game at his temple, told her to greet the first man she met outside — and Tarutius wed her on the spot.
⚠ This tradition (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 35; Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.10) presents Acca Larentia as a courtesan rather than the shepherd's wife of Livy's account — the two may be separate figures conflated under one name.
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