[10] Or Feast of the Furnace or Oven. See Ovid’s Fasti, B. ii. l. 5-25.
[11] Called the Terminalia. See Ovid’s Fasti, B. ii. l. 641, et seq.
[12] Tertullian, De Spect. i. 16, calls this goddess by the name of Sessia.
[13] Cœlius Rhodiginus, Turnebus, and Vossius, conjecture that the name of this goddess, who might only he named in the field, was Tutelina. Hardouin thinks that it was Segesta, here mentioned.
[14] Four Roman feet in width, and 120 in length.
[15] Quartarius.
[16] “Faba,” a bean; “Lens,” a lentil; and “Cicer,” a chick-pea.
[17] A “bubus,” from “oxen.” Caius Junius Bubulcus was twice Consul, and once Master of the Horse.
[18] “Farreum” was a form of marriage, in which certain words were used, in presence of ten witnesses, and were accompanied by a certain religious ceremony, in which “panis farreus” was employed; hence this form of marriage was called “confarreatio.”
[19] Farreum.