entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome." ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.66 (Proserpina as grain seed that descends into the earth — Stoic allegory of agriculture). ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 4.417-620: Proserpina's abduction by Pluto (Roman version of the Persephone myth); Ceres's search; the negotiated return; the primary Latin literary source alongside Ovid's Metamorphoses ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries." ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Proserpina receives the golden bough (Aeneid 6.141-142); consort of Pluto in the Roman underworld. 6.397-401 (Charon's realm). Central to Aeneid Book 6 as queen of the dead.