[40]. To these we may perhaps add the Poplifugia and Lucaria in July, the legends about which we can neither accept nor refute.
[41]. See Festus, 245; and Dict. Ant. s. v. Sacra.
[42]. Varro’s works, de Antiquitatibus humanis and divinis, and many others, only survive in the fragments quoted by later authors.
[43]. Paul the deacon was one of the scholars who found encouragement at the court of Charles the Great. His work is an abridgement of that of Festus, not of Verrius himself. On Verrius and his epitomators, as well as on the other writers who used his glosses, see H. Nettleship’s valuable papers in Essays in Latin Literature, p. 201 foll.
[44]. For more information about Lydus see Bury, Later Roman Empire, ii. 183, and below under [March 14].
[45]. They will be found in Bücheler’s Umbrica (containing the processional inscription of Iguvium with commentary and translation), and Henzen’s Acta Fratrum Arvalium.
[46]. Preller’s Römische Mythologie (ed. 3, by H. Jordan) and Marquardt’s third volume of his Staatsverwaltung (ed. Wissowa) are both masterpieces, not only in matter but in manner.
[47]. Among the others may especially be mentioned Aust, a pupil of Wissowa, to whom we owe the excellent and exhaustive article on Jupiter; and R. Peter, the author of the article Fortuna and others, who largely reflects the views of the late Prof. Reifferscheid of Breslau.
[48]. ‘Hoc paene unum superest sincerum documentum,’ Wissowa, de Feriis, p. 1.
[49]. This is well illustrated in the Acta Fratrum Arvalium referred to above.