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Later still, the Dioscuri entered into a dispute with their cousins, Idas and Lynceus. Castor was seriously wounded; meanwhile, Polydeuces, with Zeus’s aid, killed Idas and Lynceus, then returned to the dying Castor and conferred part of his own immortality on him, thereby saving him. Thereafter, the two brothers alternated days, staying in the Underworld one day and on Mt. Olympus, home of the gods, the next. Zeus later placed them in the sky as the constellation of Gemini, the twins. Eventually, these minor gods inspired a popular cult of worshipers in Rome.
But by that time, three separate legends had grown up to explain its origins. The first involved a warrior named Mettius Curtius, one of the Sabine soldiers who battled the early Romans, led by Rome’s first king, Romulus. Curtius played a key role in driving the Romans off the Capitoline Hill. But then Romulus counterattacked and pursued Curtius until the latter and his horse fell into the pond and drowned. The second legend held that the pond received its name when an early Roman administrator, Gaius Curtius Chilo, declared it a sacred spot after lightning had struck it.
Rome was at war with the city of Alba Longa, in the Latium plain, lying south of the city. After a number of skirmishes, both the Romans and the Albans decided it would be better to conserve their manpower to fight their common enemy—the Etruscans. Thus, each side chose three champions who would fight to decide the war’s outcome. The three Romans were members of the Horatii family, and the three Albans came from another noble family—the Curiatii. Two of the Horatii died in the battle; the third was ultimately victorious.
