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

by W. Warde Fowler

Servius, haec positi prima pudoris erit.

Parcite, matronae, vetitas attingere vestes:

Sollemni satis est voce movere preces.’

[643]. Mommsen in C. I. L. i. 2, 298.

[644]. Livy, 9. 30; Val. Max. 2. 5. 4; Varro, L. L. 6. 17. Cp. C. I. L. vi. 3696 [Magistri] quinq(uennales) [collegi] teib(icinum) Rom(anorum) qui s(acris) p(ublicis) p(raesto) s(unt) Iov(i) Epul(oni) s(acrum).

[645]. So Preller, i. 198.

[646]. Aust, in Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 680. Both here and in his work de Aedibus sacris, this scholar declines to distinguish between Iup. Invictus and Iup. Victor.

[647]. For Minerva as the patron of all such guilds see Wissowa in Lex. s. v. Minerva, 2984 foll.

[648]. Varro, L. L. 6. 17. There were three days of revelry, according to Livy (9. 30): did they meet in this temple on each day? The 13th was the day of the epulum; which the other days were we do not know.

[649]. L. L. 6. 17.