[92] See Schanz, Gesch. der röm. Literatur, vol. i. (ed. 3) p. 270 foll.

[93] This fragment of Piso is preserved by Gellius, xi. 14. 1.

[94] See, e.g., Schanz, Gesch. der röm. Literatur, vol. ii. p. 106.

[95] Wissowa, l.c. Aust in Roscher's Lexicon, s.v. "Iuppiter," p. 657.

[96] Cumont, Religions Orientales dans le paganisme romain, ch. 5. I shall return to this subject in my second course of lectures.

[97] Müller-Deecke, Etrusker, ii. ch. vii., especially p. 176 foll.

[98] Cp. below, Lecture XV.

[99] Pliny, N.H. xxviii. 13: "Vestales nostras hodie credimus nondum egressa urbe mancipia fugitiva retinere in loco precationibus."

[100] Plutarch, Numa, 10. Virginity would increase the power of the spell; see Fehrle, Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum, p. 54 foll.

[101] See, e.g., Frazer, G.B. i. 360 foll.