[536]. Liv. 10. 19. There was a tradition that Ap. Claudius, Cos. 495 B.C., had dedicated statues of his ancestors in a temple of Bellona (Pliny, N. H. 35. 12).
[537]. Serv. Aen. ix. 53.
[538]. Liv. 1. 32. 12; Marq. 422.
[539]. Ovid, Fasti, 6. 205 foll.; Paulus, 33.
[540]. Willems, Le Sénat de la République, ii. 161.
[541]. This was originally suggested by Gellius (13. 23), ‘perhaps not without some reason,’ says Marquardt (75). This suggestion has grown almost into a certainty for the writer in the Lexicon, in a manner very characteristic of the present age of research. There would be some reason to think that Bellona (or Duellona) was an ancient goddess of central Italy, if we could be sure that the inscription on an ancient cup, in the museum at Florence, which may be read ‘Belolae poculum’ (C. I. L. i. 44), refers to this deity. See Lex. s. v. Belola.
[542]. Ovid, Fasti, 6. 209. See Commentarii in honorem Th. Mommseni, 262 foll. (Klügmann), and R. Peter in Lex. s. v. Herc. p. 2979.
[543]. Preller-Jordan, ii. 296.
[545]. 9. 60, where Ζεὺς Πίστιος = Dius Fidius.