Numa's whole time, therefore, was spent in inspiring his subjects with a love of piety, and a veneration for the gods.

He built many new temples, instituted sacred offices and feasts; and the sanctity of his life gave strength to his assertion--that he had a particular correspondence with the goddess _Ege'ria_.

By her advice he built the temple of _Janus_, which was to be shut in time of peace, and open in war.

He regulated the appointment of the vestal virgins, and added considerably to the privileges which they had previously enjoyed.
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For the encouragement of agriculture, he divided those lands, which Romulus had gained in war, among the poorer part of the people; he regulated the calendar, and abolished the distinction between Romans and Sabines, by dividing the people according to their several trades, and compelling them to live together.