13. The Idaean mother landed in Italy about the end of the
second Punic war. The miracle of Claudia, either virgin or
matron, who cleared her fame by disgracing the graver
modesty of the Roman ladies, is attested by a cloud of
witnesses. Their evidence is collected by Drakenborch (ad
Silium Italicum, xvii. 33); but we may observe that Livy
(xxix. 14) slides over the transaction with discreet
ambiguity.