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

by W. Warde Fowler

[486]. Gell. 13. 23.

[487]. The Hephaestus-myth has been treated on the comparative method by F. von Schröder (Griech. Götter u. Heroen, i. 79 foll.), and by Rapp in Myth. Lex. It is of course possible that it may have been known to the early Italians, but what we know of Volcanus does not favour this.

[488]. Vitruvius, 3. 2. 2; it was ‘proxime portam Collinam.’

[489]. See below, pp. [165], [223].

[490]. Liv. 34. 53; Aust, de Aedibus, p. 20.

[491]. This seems to have been the date among the Anauni of N. Italy as late as 393 A.D.: see the Acta Martyrum, p. 536 (Verona, 1731). (For the Anauni, Rushforth, Latin Historical Inscriptions, p. 99 foll.)

[492]. Chron. 70 foll.: a difficult bit of calculation.

[493]. Mommsen, l. c. Henzen, Acta Fr. Arv. xlvi-xlviii; Jordan on Preller, i. 420, and Topogr. i. 289, ii. 236. The latter would also identify Ambarvalia and Amburbium; but the two seem clearly distinguished by Servius (Ecl. 3.77).

[494]. p. 200. Huschke, Röm. Jahr, 63.

[495]. p. 5. See Jordan on Preller, i. 420, note 2; Marq. 200, note 3.