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English[en]
Carsten Niebuhr proposed that the name Rhea Silvia came from Rea, meaning guilty, and Silvia meaning of the forest and so assumed that Rhea Silvia was a generic name for the guilty woman of the forest, i.e. the woman who had been seduced there.
Spanish[es]
Carsten Niebuhr asocia el nombre de Rea Silvia con el nombre genérico de Rea (culpable) y Silva (selva), lo que significaría "mujer culpable de la selva", es decir, mujer que ha sido violada.