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

by W. Warde Fowler

[356]. See the passages of Livy quoted above, and add 40. 45 (on account of a storm); 41. 16 (a failure on the part of Lanuvium).

[357]. Macrob. 1. 16. 16 ‘Cum Latiar, hoc est Latinarum solemne concipitur, nefas est proelium sumere: quia nec Latinarum tempore, quo publice quondam indutiae inter populum Romanum Latinosque firmatae sunt, inchoari bellum decebat.’

[358]. See under Sept. 13.

[359]. For the characteristics and meaning of the common sacrificial meal see especially Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, Lect. viii.

[360]. Helbig, Die Italiker in der Poebene, 71.

[361]. Robertson Smith, op. cit., 278 foll.

[362]. Cic. pro Plancio, 9. 23.

[363]. Sat. 1. 12. 16.

[364]. See above, Introduction, p. [11].

[365]. So Varro also (L. L. 6. 33). But Censorinus (De die natali, 20. 2) expressly ascribes to Varro the derivation from Maia; the great scholar apparently changed his view.