Car menta

and Carmentīs , a prophete of Arcadia, mother of Evander, with whom she came to Italy, and was received by king Faunus, about 60 years before the Trojan war. Her name was Nicostrata , and she received that of Car ment is from the wildne of her looks when giving oracles, as if carens ment is . She was the oracle of the people of Italy during her life, and after death she received divine honours. She had a temple at Rome, and the Greeks offered her sacrifices under the name of Them is . Ovid , Fasti , bk. 1 , li. 467 ; bk. 6 , li. 530 .— Plutarch , Romulus .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 339 .— Livy , bk. 5 , ch. 47 .