Editing Numa Pompilius (section)

==Genealogy==
[[File:Numa Pompilius, from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum.jpg|thumb|Fantasy depiction of Numa in the ''[[Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum]]'']]
According to [[Plutarch]], Numa was the youngest of Pomponius's<ref>Pompon in Plutarch and Dionysius. The Sabine form of the name was Pompos, not Pomponius as is often supposed, which like Pompilius is a [[patronymic]] adjectival formation.</ref> four sons, born on the day of Rome's founding (traditionally, 21 April 753 BC). He lived a severe life of discipline and banished all luxury from his home. [[Titus Tatius]], king of the [[Sabine]]s and a colleague of Romulus, gave in marriage his only daughter, [[Tatia (wife of Numa Pompilius)|Tatia]], to Numa. After 13 years of marriage, Tatia died, precipitating Numa's retirement to the countryside. According to [[Livy]], Numa resided at [[Cures, Sabinum|Cures]] immediately before being elected king.<ref name="LivyAb">Livy, ''[[Ab urbe condita libri|Ab urbe condita]]'', [[s:From the Founding of the City/Book 1#18|1:18]].</ref>

[[Titus Livius]] (Livy) and [[Plutarch]] refer to the story that Numa was instructed in philosophy by [[Pythagoras]], but discredit it as chronologically and geographically implausible.<ref name="LivyAb" />

Plutarch reports that some authors credited Pompilius with only a single daughter, [[Pompilia (daughter of Numa Pompilius)|Pompilia]]. Pompilia's mother is variously identified as Numa's first wife Tatia, or his second wife [[Lucretia (wife of Numa Pompilius)|Lucretia]]. Pompilia is said to have married the son of the first ''[[pontifex maximus]]'', [[Numa Marcius]], also named Numa Marcius, and by him gave birth to the future king [[Ancus Marcius]].<ref name="Plutarch Numa 21">{{cite Plutarch|Numa|21}}</ref><ref name="Plutarch Coriolanus">{{cite Plutarch|Coriolanus|1}}</ref><ref>Tacitus, ''Annales'', vi. 11.</ref><ref>E. Peruzzi ''Le origini di Roma'' I. ''La famiglia'' Firenze 1970 pp. 142ff.</ref>

Other authors, according to Plutarch, additionally gave Numa five sons, [[Pomponius|Pompo]] (or [[Pomponius]]), Pinus, Calpus, Mamercus, and Numa, from whom the noble families ''([[gens|gentes]])'' of the [[Pomponia gens|Pomponii]], [[Pinaria gens|Pinarii]], [[Calpurnia gens|Calpurnii]], [[Aemilia gens|Aemilii]], and [[Pompilia gens|Pompilii]] respectively traced their descent. Other more skeptical authors, still according to Plutarch, believed these were fictional genealogies to enhance the status of these families.<ref>{{cite Plutarch|Numa|21}}</ref>