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

by W. Warde Fowler

[696] Livy xxvi. 23.

[697] Ib. xxvii. 8.

[698] Ib. xxvii. 25; Plut. Marcellus, p. 28.

[699] Ib. xxvii. 23.

[700] Ib. xxvii. 37.

[701] The idea that this number was "chthonic" and a monopoly of the Sibylline utterances was started by Diels, Sib. Blätter, p. 42 foll., with imperfect anthropological knowledge, and has led Wissowa and others into wrong conclusions, e.g. as to the Argei. See an article criticising Wissowa in Classical Rev. 1902, p. 211. On the whole subject of the number three and its multiples, see Usener, "Dreizahl," in Rheinisches Museum for 1903, and Goudy, Trichotomy in Roman Law (Oxford, 1910), p. 5 foll.

[702] Livy xxvii. 51. For gratitude among Romans, see above, p. 202. A gift of thanksgiving was sent to Delphi (Livy xxviii. 45).

[703] Ib. xxix. 10 foll. For other references see R.F. p. 69 foll.

[704] Ib. xxix. 10.

[705] Dion. Hal. ii. 19; R.F. p. 70.