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

by W. Warde Fowler

[728] Livy xxxii. 7; xxxix. 39.

[729] Tac. Ann. iv. 16.

[730] See above, p. 255.

[731] Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, vol. v. p. 85 foll. Very interesting is the modern survival of Dionysiac rites recently discovered in Thrace by Mr. Dawkins (Hellenic Journal, 1906, p. 191).

[732] Farnell, op. cit. vol. v. p. 150.

[733] Quoted by Farnell, p. 151, from Rohde's Psyche.

[734] It is possible that superstitio may originally have had some such meaning; see W. Otto in Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 1909, p. 548 foll.; Mayor's edition of Cic. de Nat. Deorum, note on ii. 72 foll.

[735] Ovid, Fasti, iii. 523 foll. See also Roman Society in the Age of Cicero, p. 289.

[736] See Mr. Heitland's History of the Roman Republic, vol. ii. p. 229 note, and cp. Wissowa in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. s.v. "Bacchanalia."

[737] Livy xxxix. 8 foll.