[524] Festus, p. 2; see the remarks of Marquardt, Römische Staatsverwaltung; Aust, Religion der Römer, p. 121; and Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 232 f. On the relation between the lapis and Juppiter Elicius, see Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer, p. 106; cf. Roscher, Lexikon, article "Iuppiter," col. 606 ff.
[525] See above, § 97 ff.
[526] On processes of capturing a god in order to inclose him in an object, or of transferring a god from one object to another, see W. Crooke, "The Binding of a God," in Folklore, viii.
[527] In pre-Islamic Arabia many gods were represented by stones, the stone being generally identified with the deity; so Al-Lât, Dhu ash-Shara (Dusares), and the deities represented by the stones in the Meccan Kaaba.
[528] Livy, xxix, 10 f.
[529] 1 Sam. iv.
[530] Head, Historia Numorum, p. 661.
[531] Tacitus, Hist. ii, 3; it was conical in shape.
[532] Fowler, Roman Festivals p. 230 ff.; cf. above, the "lapis manalis," § 289.
[533] Herodian, v, 3, 10.