[108] Apologet., cap. IX.
[109] See [stamp] on outside cover.
[110] Hist., IV., 70.
[111] See note (footnote 101), at page [59], supra.
[112] See the references to imprecatory invokings, in connection with the observance of the rite in Syria, in Central Africa, in Madagascar, and in Timor, at pages [9], [20], [31], [46] f., [53], supra.
[113] Hist., III., 8.
[114] See page [45] supra, note (footnote 74).
[115] See references to the welcoming of new friends by the natives of Africa and of Borneo, at the celebration of this rite, at pages [36] f., [51], supra.
[116] Sextus Pompeius Festus, whose chief work, in the third or fourth Christian century, was an epitome, with added notes and criticisms, of an unpreserved work of M. Verrius Flaccus, on the Latin language and antiquities.
[117] See Rosenmüller’s Scholia in Vet. Test., apud Psa. 16 : 4.