[126] Perhaps, too, the scramble for the horse’s head between two divisions of the population was objectionable in their eyes.
[127] Relig. u. Kultus, p. 131. On the same day there was a sacrifice to that fortis dea, Nerio without doubt, who was in some unknown sense the consort of Mars (Ovid, Fasti iii. 849).
[128] Farnell, Evolution of Religion, p. 136.
[129] De Nat. Deorum, ii. 36. 82.
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