[77] Nat. Hist. xxviii. 63.

[78] Frazer, Golden Bough, and E. C. Gurdon, County Folk-lore, Suffolk, p. 14.

[79] Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg, ii. 120, § 428.

[80] Livy, vii. 27.

[81] Livy, viii. 18.

[82] Livy, ix. 28.

[83] x. 31.

[84] Livy, X. 47, and Epit. Lib. xi.

[85] Valerius Maximus, i. 8.

[86] See Duruy, History of Rome, i. 555.