Diana sheltered the resurrected Virbius (Hippolytus) in her sacred grove at Nemi after Aesculapius restored him to life. Virbius was worshipped alongside Diana as a minor deity of the forest sanctuary.
In Roman tradition, Hippolytus was resurrected by Asclepius and taken by Diana to the sacred grove at Aricia in Italy, where he became the minor deity Virbius.
Aesculapius raised Virbius (the resurrected Hippolytus) from the dead using his supreme healing arts. This act of restoring life to the dead directly provoked Jupiter's thunderbolt that destroyed the divine physician.
Diana hid the resurrected Hippolytus in her grove at Lake Nemi under the new name Virbius, where horses were forever banned because they had dragged him to his death in his former life.
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