[305] The materials and, to a certain extent, the ideas of this chapter are chiefly derived from Zeller’s Philosophie der Griechen, Vol. III., Duruy’s Histoire des Romains, Vol. V., Gaston Boissier’s Religion Romaine, and above all from Friedländer’s Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Rom’s, Part III., chapters iv. and vi.
[306] Friedländer, Römische Sittengeschichte, III., pp, 483, 681.
[307] As a striking instance of the solidarity which now connects all forms of irrationalism, it may be mentioned that Livy’s fables are accepted, in avowed defiance of modern criticism, by the clericalising English students of archaeology in Rome.
[308] Using the word in its modern rather than in its ancient sense, so as to include the whole empire outside the city of Rome.
[309] Epp., II., i., 20 ff.
[310] Carm., I., xi., and III., xxiii.
[311] Carm., III., vi., and the Carmen Seculare.
[312] Boissier, Religion Romaine, I., p. 336.
[313] Friedländer, III., p. 510.
[314] See the note on Honestiores and Humiliores appended to the fifth volume of Duruy’s Histoire des Romains.