[[54]] Fasti, iii, 57; Seneca, Ep. 18. 1, December est mensis: cum maxime civitas sudat, ius luxuries publicæ datum est ... ut non videatur mihi errasse qui dixit: olim mensem Decembrem fuisse nunc annum.
[[55]] Cf. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, lect. xi.
[[56]] Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 106 f.
[[57]] Ovid, Fasti, ii, 409 f. Warde Fowler, op. cit. pp. 306 f.
[[58]] Ovid, Fasti, v, 490.
[[59]] De Divinatione, i, 1, 2.
[[60]] ib. i, 3, 5.
[[61]] ib. i, 39, 84.
[[62]] De Divinatione, i, 38, 82, 83. Cf. Tertullian, de Anima, 46. Sed et Stoici deum malunt providentissimum humanæ institutioni inter cetera præsidia divinatricum artium et disciplinarum somnia quoque nobis indidisse, peculiare solatium naturalis oraculi.
[[63]] Panaetius and Seneca should be excepted from this charge.