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

by W. Warde Fowler

[720]. Cic. de Rep. 1. 16; Plut. Rom. 27.

[721]. Liv. 1. 16 ‘Ad exercitum recensendum.’ Lustratio came to be the word for a review of troops because this was preceded by a religious lustratio populi.

[722]. e. g. Gilbert, i. 290; Marq. 325.

[723]. L. L. 6. 18. Details have vanished with the great work here quoted, the Antiquitates divinae.

[724]. Schwegler suggested the parallel, i. 534, note 20. For the Bouphonia see especially Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. 68. For other such rites, Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 679, 680.

[725]. Bücheler, Umbrica, 114.

[726]. The idea of the scapegoat was certainly not unknown in Italy; Bücheler quotes Serv. (Aen. 2. 140) ‘Ludos Taureos a Sabinis propter pestilentiam institutos dicunt, ut lues publica in has hostias verteretur.’ See on the Regifugium, below, p. [328].

[727]. See examples in Frazer, Golden Bough, ii. 160 foll. The one from the Key Islands is interesting as including a flight of the people.

[728]. Nissen, Landeskunde, 406.

[729]. C. I. L. p. 269.