Flail, pretence of throttling persons with flail at threshing, vii. 149, 150, 230
—— or scourge, an emblem of Osiris, vi. 108, 153;
for collecting incense, vi. 109 n. 1
Flamen, derivation of the name, ii. 235, 247
Flamen Dialis, the, ii. 179, 235, 246, 247;
an embodiment of Jupiter, ii. 191 sq.;
taboos observed by the, ii. 248, iii. 13 sq., 239, 248, 257, 275, 291, 293, 315 sq.;
interpreted as a living image of Jupiter, iii. 13;
the widowed, vi. 227 sqq.;
forbidden to touch a dead body, but allowed to attend a funeral, vi. 228;