As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Upon inquiry, not as history records the Pignora Imperii were not lost, destroyed. They were hidden in the catacombs of the Vatican. Inquiry states they will be brought out for the son of perdition, and moved to the Temple in Jerusalem to be edified in the abomination.
Servius's list
The 4th-century scholar Servius notes in his commentary to Vergil's Aeneid that "there were seven tokens (pignora) which maintain Roman rule (imperium Romanum)," and gives the following list:[4]
- the needle of the Mother of the Gods (Acus Matris Deum), kept in the Temple of Cybele on the Palatine Hill.;
- the terracotta four-horse chariot brought from Veii (Quadriga Fictilis Veientanorum), supposed to have been commissioned by the last king of Rome Tarqinius Superbus, which was displayed on the roof of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitolium;
- the ashes of Orestes (Cineres Orestis), kept at the same temple;
- the scepter of Priam (Sceptrum Priami), brought to Rome by Aeneas;
- the veil of Ilione (Velum Ilionae), daughter of Priam, another Trojan token attributed to Aeneas;
- the Palladium, kept in the Temple of Vesta;
- the Ancile, the sacred shield of Mars Gradivus given to Numa Pompilius, kept in the Regia hidden among eleven other identical copies to confuse would-be thieves. All twelve shields were ritually paraded each year through Rome by the Salii during the Agonum Martialis.
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