[566]. Liv. 41. 13, with Weissenborn’s note. The stone was perhaps the same as one which had shortly before fallen into the grove of Mars at Crustumerium (41. 9).
[567]. C. I. L. vi. 567. 568; and Bull. dell’Inst., 1881, p. 38 foll. (This last with a statue, which, however, may not belong to it: Jordan’s note on Preller, ii. 273.) Wilmanns, Exempla Inscr. Lat. 1300.
[568]. Marq. 263; B.-Leclercq, iv. 51 foll. The Scholiast on Persius, 2. 27, is explicit on the point. But Deecke, in a note to Müller’s Etrusker (ii. 275) doubts the connexion of the decuria with bidental = puteal.
[569]. Festus, s. v. Scribonianum (p. 333: the restoration can hardly be wrong) ‘[quia ne]fas est integi, semper ibi forami[ne aper]to caelum patet.’
[570]. L. L. 5. 66 ‘ut ea videatur divum, id est caelum.’ He connects the word divum with Dius Fidius. See Jordan in the collection of essays ‘in honorem Th. Mommseni,’ p. 369.
[571]. Martianus Capella, 1. 45 (p. 47 in Eyssenhardt’s edition). See Nissen’s explanation in Das Templum, p. 184, and plate iv. In this account Jupiter occupies the chief place: Sancus is there, alone in the 12th regio. But doubt has been cast on Nissen’s view by the discovery of an actual representation of the caeli templum (see Aust, in Lex. s. v. Iupiter, 668).
[572]. Dionys. 4. 58. In 9. 60 he says that this temple was only vowed by Tarquinius, and not dedicated till 466 B.C. (Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 6); but there must have been a still earlier sanctuary of some kind (Livy writes of a sacellum, 8. 20. 8). Dionysius is interesting and explicit; he calls Dius Fidius Ζεὺς Πίστιος, and adds the name Σάγκος. The treaties next in date, those with Carthage, were kept in the aedilium thesaurus, close to the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (Polyb. 3. 22; Mommsen, Staatsrecht, ii. 1 (ed. 2) 481 note). Here we seem to see the authority of the ancient Dius Fidius already losing ground.
[573]. Plut. Quaest. Rom. 30; Varro, ap. Plin. N. H. 8. 194; Festus, 238. It was Reifferscheid’s conjecture that she was a female Dius Fidius (see Wissowa, Lex. 1190). Fest. 241 adds ‘cuius ex zona periclitantes ramenta sumunt.’
[574]. Bull. dell’ Inst., 1867, 352 foll. Reifferscheid was prevented by death from working his view out more fully; but R. Peter (see Lex. s. v. Hercules, 2267) preserved notes of his lectures.
[575]. Gellius, 11. 6. 1. For Juno as female equivalent of Genius see article ‘Iunones’ in Lex. But it does not seem proved that this was the old name, and not an idea of comparatively late times.