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

by W. Warde Fowler

Nunc decet; a Siculo nomina colle tenent.

He seems to have confused this temple with that on the Capitol (Aust, de Aedibus, 23).

[294]. Liv. 40. 34. 4.

[295]. Aust, ib. p. 24. Varro wrote a satire ‘Vinalia περὶ ἀφροδισίων.’ Plutarch (Q. R. 45) confuses Vinalia and Veneralia.

[296]. Festus, 264 and 265; in the Vallis Murcia (or Circus maximus), and the lucus Libitinae. (In 265, xiii Kal. Sept. should be xiv.) For the date of the former temple, 293 B.C., Liv. 10. 31. 9.

[297]. Varro, R. R. 1. 1; Fest. 265; Preller-Jordan, i. 441.

[298]. C. I. L. iv. 2776.

[299]. Varro, L. L. 6. 16. See Myth. Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 704 foll.

[300]. Mommsen, C. I. L. 326. Vindemia is the grape-harvest. Hartmann, Röm. Kal. 138, differs from Mommsen on this point.

[301]. Q. R. 45.