[686] In Varro, L.L. vii. 44. There is no doubt that the line is from Ennius; it is also quoted as his in Festus, p. 355.
[687] Schanz, Gesch. der röm. Literatur, vol. i. ed. 3, p. 110.
[688] Some examples of substitution will be found in Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, i. 469. It is of course a well-known phenomenon, but is now generally rejected as an explanation of oscilla, maniae, etc. (see Wissowa, R.K. p. 355, and Frazer, G.B. ii. 344). I know of no case of it on good evidence at Rome, unless it be one in the devotio, of an effigy for the soldier, ("ni moritur," Livy viii. 10).
[689] See Roman Festivals, p. 117, with references to Mannhardt; Frazer, G.B. ii. 256; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, v. 181.
[690] Livy xxiii. 11. See also Diels, Sib. Blätter, pp. 11 and 92.
[691] Livy xxiv. 10.
[692] Ib. xxiv. 44.
[693] Ib. xxv. 1.
[694] Ib. xxv. 12. On the Marcian oracles and their metre, see Bouché-Leclercq, Hist. de divination, iv. 128 foll.; Wissowa, R.K. 463 note 2; Diels, op. cit. p. 7 foll.
[695] See above, Lect. xi. p. 262. For the Apolline games, R.F. p. 179 foll.