[312]. Indigitation is the fixing of the local action of a god to be invoked, by means of his name, if I understand rightly Reifferscheid’s view as given by R. Peter in Myth. Lex. s. v. Indigitamenta, p. 137. The priest of the Robigalia was the flamen Quirinalis: Quirinus is one form of Mars.
[313]. de Spectaculis, 5.
[314]. Cato, R. R. 141; Preller-Jordan, i. 340.
[315]. Strabo, 613: see Roscher, Apollo and Mars, p. 62. Ἐρυσίβη = mildew, of which ἐρυθίβη is the Rhodian form.
[316]. See Mommsen’s ingenious explanation in C. I. L. 316.
[317]. Fasti, 4. 901 foll. The victims had been slain at Rome and in the morning; and were offered at the grove later in the day (see Marq. 184).
[318]. Villis mantele solutis (cp. Serv. Aen. 12. 169).
[319]. R. R. 141.
[320]. So we may perhaps translate quo sidere moto: but Ovid certainly thought the star rose (cf. 904). Hartmann explains Ovid’s blunder by reference to Serv. Georg. 1. 218 (Röm. Kal. 193). See also H. Peter, ad loc.
[321]. Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. 107 foll.