The Samnites were led by an ox, bos, after which was named their capital Bovianum, founded upon the hill on which the ox had stopped.
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Dumézil remarks that the boar is the animal symbolizing Vane, the Freyr of Scandinavian mythology.
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Sometimes the Sabine migrations known as the ver sacrum started from this place: a famous instance is that of the seven thousand sacrales led by Comus (or Cominus) Castronius who founded Bovianum following the steps of an ox, thus giving rise to the Samnite nation.