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

by W. Warde Fowler

[710]. Mommsen in C. I. L. 321 (on July 7).

[711]. Varro, L. L.6. 18; Marq. 325.

[712]. See Introduction, p. 7. This anomaly led Huschke to the inadmissible supposition that this was the single addition made to the calendar of Numa in the republican period. He accepts Varro’s explanatory story, Röm. Jahr, p. 224.

[713]. See below, p. [327].

[714]. R. G. i. 532: see Mommsen’s criticism in C. I. L 321 f.

[715]. Macrob. 6. 11. 36; Plut. Rom. 29, Camill. 33. See also O. Müller’s note on Varro, L. L. 6. 18.

[716]. L. L. 6. 18.

[717]. This is Varro’s account; the Etruscans are a variant in Macrobius, l. c.

[718]. Dionys. 2. 56; Plut. Rom. 29. See Lewis, Credibility of Early Roman History, i. 430.

[719]. Introduction, p. 15.