[262] GB, Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, II. 339.
[263] Gruppe, op. cit. II. 783; Preller, Griechische Mythologie, pp. 618 ff. (1872).
[264] Cp. Pausan. VIII. xxv. 1 ff.; Ovid, Metam. V. 106; Pliny, XVI. 33; and for the Charites see Gruppe, op. cit. I. 81, II. 1073, 1083, 1189, 1284; Lobeck, op. cit. II. 1085 ff.; Julii Pol. Onom. IV. 95. For the Thesmophoria see Frazer, GB, Spirits of the Corn ..., II. 16 ff.; Farnell, Cults ..., III. 85-93; and for the Thargelia, GB, The Scapegoat, pp. 254 ff.; Farnell, Cults ..., IV. 268 ff.
[265] E.g. in the cult of Ἄρτεμις Κορδάκα, see Lobeck, De myst. priv. II. 959; Farnell, Cults ..., II. 445; Pausan. VI. xxii. 1. The procession called φαλλοφορία was especially associated with Dionysos and Hermes, see Farnell in ERE, VI. 417 a.
[266] See Farnell in ERE, VI. 403 b; he says: “this privilege of ecstasy might be used for the practical purposes of vegetation-magic.”
[267] Mars was originally a god of vegetation; he appears subsequently as the god of war.
[268] See Aust, Die Religion der Römer, p. 171 (1899).
[269] A translation in full is given by Carter in ERE, II. 10 b, 11 a.
[270] See further on the whole subject Pauly-Wissowa, Realencycl. der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, II. 1463 ff. (1896).
[271] See Marquardt, Römische Staatsverwaltung, III. 444 (1885).