[376]. See on Robigalia, [April 25].
[377]. Quaest. Rom. 52 and 111; cf. Romulus 21.
[378]. So Jevons, Roman Questions, Introduction, xli.
[379]. De-Marchi, La Religione nella vita domestica, 48. Wissowa (Myth. Lex., s. v. Lares, p. 1872) prefers the old interpretation, much as Plutarch gives it.
[380]. Fasti, 5. 149 foll.
[381]. Aust, De Aedibus sacris, p. 27. It was apparently before 123 B.C., when a Vestal Virgin, Licinia, added an aedicula, pulvinar, and ara to it (Cic. de Domo, 136).
[382]. Wissowa, in Pauly’s Real-Encyclopädie, s. v. Bona Dea, 690. See above, p. 69.
[383]. See below, under [Dec. 3]. There can be hardly a doubt that this December rite was the one famous for the sacrilegium of Clodius in 62 B.C., though Prof. Beesly rashly assumed the contrary in his essay on Clodius (Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius, p. 45 note). Plutarch, Cic. 19 and 20; Dio Cass. 37. 35.
[384]. Ovid, l. c. ‘oculos exosa viriles.’ Cp. Ars Amat. 3. 637. On this and other points in the cult see R. Peter in Myth. Lex., and Wissowa, l. c. The latter seems to refer most of them to the December rite; but Ovid and Macrobius expressly connect them with the temple. Macr. 1. 12. 25 foll.
[385]. Propert. 4. 9; Macr. 1. 12. 28.