Golden Bough, i. 187 ff.
Ibid., 188. The date of the rite was 13th August; cf. Auson., De Fer. Rom., 6; Martial, 12, 67, 2. The asylum for runaway slaves afforded by the temple finds a folk-lore explanation in a folk-etymology. "Ædem Dianæ dedicaverit in Aventino, cuius tutelæ sint cervi, a quo celeritate fugitivos vocent cervos" (Festus, p. 343a, 7, s.v. Servorum dies). Birt (Roscher's Lexikon, i. 1008) seems to take this explanation seriously; but the temple on the Aventine was precisely the temple in which the goddess of cervi was not worshipped. Possibly the right of asylum was conferred on the temple as part of the political changes brought about by the formation of the Latin confederacy, for this temple was the religious centre of the Latin alliance, "Commune Latinorum Dianæ templum" (Varro, L. L. v. 43). Hence, then, the folk-story that Servius Tullius, "natus servus" (Festus, l.c.), built the temple and gave it the right of asylum.
For the full list see Marquardt, 328-331.
Golden Bough, i. 37 ff.
Ibid., i. 39.