Aulus Gellius, xiv. 7. 7. Compare Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ vii. 153, ix. 4.
Festus, _s.v._ “penus,” p. 250, ed. C. O. Müller, where for _saepius_ we must obviously read _saeptus_.
Ovid, _Fasti_, i. 199, iii. 183 _sq._; Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Rom._ i. 79. 11. For the situation of the hut see also Plutarch, _Romulus_, 20.
Conon, _Narrationes_, 48; Vitruvius, ii. 1. 5, p. 35, ed. Rose and Müller-Strübing; Macrobius, _Saturn._ i. 15. 10. Compare Virgil, _Aen._ viii. 653 _sq._ As to the two huts on the Palatine and the Capitol see A. Schwegler, _Römische Geschichte_, i. 394; L. Jahn on Macrobius, _l.c._
Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Ant. Rom._ ii. 66; Plutarch, _Numa_, 11 and 14; Solinus, i. 21; Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 263 _sqq._; _id._, _Tristia_, iii. 1. 29 _sq._; Tacitus, _Annals_, xv. 41.
Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ viii. 363. Festus, however, distinguishes the old royal palace (_Regia_) from the house of the King of the Sacred Rites (_s.v._ “Sacram viam,” pp. 290, 293, ed. C. O. Müller). In classical times the _Regia_ was the residence or office of the Pontifex Maximus; but we can hardly doubt that formerly it was the house of the _Rex Sacrorum_. See O. Gilbert, _Geschichte und Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum_, i. 225, 235 _sq._, 341, 344. As to the existing remains of the _Regia_, the temple of Vesta, and the house of the Vestals, see O. Richter, _Topographie der Stadt Rom_, 2nd Ed., pp. 88 _sqq._; Ch. Huelsen, _Die Ausgrabungen auf dem Forum Romanum_ 2nd Ed., (Rome, 1903), pp. 62 _sqq._, 88 _sqq._; Mrs. E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_ (London, 1904), pp. 26 _sqq._
Dio Cassius, liv. 27, who tells us that Augustus annexed the house of the King of the Sacred Rites to the house of the Vestals, on which it abutted.
Many such phenomena are noted by Julius Obsequens in his book of prodigies, appended to W. Weissenborn’s edition of Livy, vol. x. 2, pp. 193 _sqq._ (Berlin, 1881).
W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, pp. 50-55; E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_, pp. 30, 152, 154. For pictures of these hut-urns see G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 191, fig. 52; _id._, in _Nuova Antologia_, August 1900, p. 22.