[206]. Preller, ii. 55.
[207]. Plin. H. N. 18. 16; Arnobius, 7. 49.
[208]. Livy, 29. 10, 14.
[209]. See above, Introduction, p. [7].
[210]. de Harusp. Resp. 12. 24 ‘Qui uni ludi ne verbo quidem appellantur Latino, ut vocabulo ipso et appetita religio externa et Matris Magnae nomine suscepta declaretur.’
[211]. Dion. Hal. 2. 19. A very interesting passage, in which, among other comments, the historian points out that in receiving the goddess the Romans eliminated ἅπασαν τερθρείαν μυθικήν.
[212]. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, pp. 22 and 49.
[213]. Gell. 18. 2. 11 (patricii); cp. 2. 24. 2 (principes civitatis). Cp. Lydus, 4. 45; Verrius’ note in Praen., ‘Nobilium mutitationes cenarum solitae sunt frequenter fieri,’ &c.
[214]. See Marq. 370 foll. The Ludi eventually extended from the 4th to the 10th inclusive (C. I. L. 314).
[215]. Or Hordicidia, Fest. 102; Hordicalia, Varro, R. R. 2. 5. 6; Fordicalia, Lydus, 4. 49. ‘Forda ferens bos est fecundaque, dicta ferendo,’ Ovid, Fasti, 4. 631.