The Religious Experience of the Roman People / From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

by W. Warde Fowler

[614] Cic. de Div. i. 16. 28; Val. Max. ii. 1. 1.

[615] La Religione nella vita domestica, i. 153 foll.; 232 foll.

[616] Cic. de Div. i. 16, 28.

[617] This fragment is preserved in Gellius vii. 6. 10. Nigidius may be responsible for many of Pliny's omens. Regell, op. cit. p. 8.

[618] Hor. Odes, iii. 27. 1 foll.

[619] Exactly the same misfortune occurred in the middle ages. The monks had abundant opportunity of observation, but were occupied with other matters, and have left behind them no works on natural history.

[620] See above, p. 169 foll.

[621] Livy vi. 12.

[622] See the fragment of Ennius' Annales in Cic. de Div. i. 107.

[623] Wissowa, R.K. p. 450; Lex coloniae Genetivae, 66 and 67.