The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

by T. R. Glover

[[34]] Pliny, N.H. viii, 151; xxx, 84.

[[35]] Plutarch, Numa, 15; de facie in orbe lunæ, 30; Ovid, Fasti, iii, 291.

[[36]] Horace's ode attests the power of the Fauns over crops and herds.

[[37]] Dionys. Hal. v, 16.

[[38]] Pliny, N.H. xii, 3.

[[39]] Ovid, Fasti, iii, 267. Licia dependent longas velantia sæpes, et posita est meritæ multa tabella deæ.

[[40]] Virgil, Æn. x, 423.

[[41]] Horace, Odes, iii, 13.

[[42]] W. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 240.

[[43]] Cf. Tertullian, de Baptismo, 5. Annon et alias sine ullo Sacramento immundi spiritus aquis incubant, adfectantes illam in primordio divini spiritus gestationem? Sciunt opaci quique fontes, et avii quique rivi, et in balneis piscinæ et euripi in domibus, vel cisternæ et putei, qui rapere dicuntur, scilicet per vim spiritus nocentis. Nympholeptos et lymphaticos et hydrophobos vocant quos aquæ necaverunt aut amentia vel formidine exercuerunt. Quorsum ista retulimus? Ne quis durius credat angelum dei sanctum aquis in salutem hominis temperandis adesse.