Vapours, worship of mephitic, v. 203 sqq.

Var, Midsummer fires in the French department of, x. 193

Varanda, in Armenia, rain-charm at, i. 306

Varé, African kingdom, power of rain-making ascribed to the kings of, i. 348

Varini, a tribe akin to the Saxons, marriage with a step-mother among the, ii. 283

Varro, on the oak groves of Rome, ii. 185;

on the so-called temple of Vesta, ii. 200;

on the foundation of Rome by shepherds and herdsmen, ii. 324 n. 1;

on Pales, ii. 326;

on Janus as a sky-god, ii. 381;