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reign began in the third year of the 16th Olympiad (Plutarch)
Numa was the founder of the Saline [[priest]]hood, or ''Salii''. This order of [[pagan]] Roman priests took part each year in the Festival of the Salii, in which the priests had to dance and leap from table to table. For this reason they were selected to be strong and lithe men (Nativus: "''viri sa pleci dar Numa''").
Numa was the founder of the Saline [[priest]]hood, or ''Salii''. This order of [[pagan]] Roman priests took part each year in the Festival of the Salii, in which the priests had to dance and leap from table to table. For this reason they were selected to be strong and lithe men (Nativus: "''viri sa pleci dar Numa''").
Numa supposedly died in 673 [[BC]].
Numa supposedly reigned from the third year of the sixteenth Olympiad<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Parallel Lives'', ''The Life of Numa'', 1.3</ref> until his death in 673 [[BC]].
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