[144]. See Pauly, Encycl. vol. i. 2223. This is Wissowa’s opinion.
[146]. Cic. ad Fam. 12. 25. 1; Att. 9. 9. 4; Auct. Bell. Hisp. 31.
[147]. Varro, L. L. 6. 14 ‘In libris Saliorum, quorum cognomen Agonensium, forsitan his dies ideo appellatur potius Agonia.’ So Masurius Sabinus (in Macrob. Sat. 1. 4. 15), ‘Liberalium dies a pontificibus agonium Martiale appellatur.’
[148]. See above, p. [53], where I have expressed a doubt whether this custom originally belonged to the Liberalia. It is alluded to in Ovid, Fasti, 3. 725 foll., and Varro, L. L. 6. 14.
[149]. This is the view of Wissowa in Myth. Lex. s. v. Liber, 2022. Cp. Aust, Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 662.
[150]. It is only once attested of Roman worship, viz. in the calendar of the Fratres Arvales (Sept. 1 ‘Iovi Libero, Iunoni Reginae in Aventino,’ C. I. L. i. 214); but is met with several times among the Osco-Sabellian peoples.
[151]. So Hehn, Kulturpflanzen, &c., p. 70 foll. But Hehn is only thinking of the later Liber, whom he considers an ‘emanation’ from Jupiter Liber = Dionysus, introduced with the vine from Greece. See Aust, Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 662.
[152]. See on [April 23].
[153]. Ovid, Fasti, 3. 771 foll.