[99]. Fast. 3. 429 ‘Una nota est Marti Nonis; sacrata quod illis Templa putant lucos Vediovis ante duos.’
[100]. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 33.
[101]. Polyb. 21. 10 (13); Liv. 37. 33.
[102]. See his article in Dict. Ant. He further suggests that in Philocalus’ note ancilia is an adjective, and that arma ancilia means the shields only, as the spears of Mars do not seem to have been used by the Salii.
[103]. The day is of course not given in these almanacs; but the position is between Isidis navigium (March 5) and Liberalia (March 17).
[104]. de Feriis, ix. foll. Cp. C. I. L. 311.
[105]. The usual sacrifice to Jupiter on the Ides is also mentioned by Wissowa in this connexion; but I should hardly imagine that it would have had a sufficiently popular character to cause any such alteration as he is arguing for. But the first full moon of the year may have become over-crowded with rites; and it was the day on which at one time the consuls entered on office, B.C. 222 to 154 (Mommsen, Chron. 102 and notes).
[106]. Wissowa takes both as lustrations of cavalry. Mommsen, C. I. L. 332, disapproves of Wissowa’s reasoning about this day.
[107]. C. I. L. 311.
[108]. C. I. L. 254.