[176]. Wissowa in Lex. s. v. Minerva 2986: a model article, to which the reader must be referred for further information about Minerva.
[177]. Lydus, 4. 42, adds ‘Nerine,’ and further tells us that this was the last day on which the ancilia were ‘moved’ (κίνησις τῶν ὅπλων). The Salii were also active on the 24th (Fest. 278).
[178]. The note is thus completed by Mommsen from Varro, L. L. 6. 31 ‘Dies qui vocatur sic, Quando Rex Comitiavit Fas, is dictus ab eo quod eo die rex sacrificulus itat [we should probably read litat] ad comitium, ad quod tempus est nefas, ab eo fas’ (see Marq. 323, note 8). The MS. has ‘dicat ad comitium.’ If we adopt litat with Hirschfeld and Jordan, we are not on that account committed to the belief corrected in Praen., that it was on this day and May 24 that the Rex fled after sacrificing in comitio (see Hartmann, Röm. Kal. 162 foll.). The question will be discussed under Feb. 24.
[179]. Röm. Chronol. p. 241; Staatsrecht, iii. 375.
[180]. Gaius, 2. 101 ‘Comitia calata quae bis in anno testamentis faciendis destinata erant.’ Cp. Maine, Ancient Law, 199.
[181]. It may have been of Etruscan origin: Müller-Deecke, Etrusker, ii. 206. A special kind of tuba seems to have been used at funerals: Gell. N. A. 20. 2; Marq. Privatleben, i. 341.
[182]. For the military use, Liv. ii. 64. They were also used in sacris Saliaribus Paul. 19, s. v. Armilustrium. Wissowa (de Feriis xv) mentions a relief in which the Salii are preceded by tubicines laureati (published in St. Petersburgh by E. Schulze, 1873).
[183]. C. I. L. 313. He is of opinion that the note was among those ‘non tam a Verrio scriptas quam male ex scriptis eius excerptas.’
[184]. de Div. i. 17. 30.
[185]. Varro, L. L. 5. 91.