The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic / An Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans

by W. Warde Fowler

[196]. Fasti, 4. 133-164.

[197]. Ovid, l. c. 149 foll.

[198]. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 456.

[199]. Quaest. Rom. 74.

[200]. Ovid, l. c., 4. 160 ‘Inde Venus verso nomina corde tenet.’

[201]. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 28. About a century earlier a statue of this Venus was said to have been erected (Val. Max. 8. 15. 12; Plin. H. N. 7. 120), as Wissowa pointed out in his Essay, ‘de Veneris Simulacris,’ p. 12.

[202]. See above, p. [67], note 2.

[203]. Religion of the Semites, p. 450 foll.

[204]. Preller, i. 446.

[205]. Livy, 29. 10 and 14; Ovid (Fasti, 4. 259 foll.) has a fanciful edition of the story which well illustrates the character of his work, and that of the legend-mongers; cp. Preller, ii. 57.