[740]. Plut. Rom. 29. Varro, L. L. 6. 18 writes ‘in Latio.’

[741]. Deecke, Die Falisker, 89; Roscher, in Lex. s. v. Juno, p. 599.

[742]. See above, p. [143].

[743]. One naturally compares the ficus Ruminalis and the foundation-legend of Rome.

[744]. It is curious that the practice in husbandry called caprificatio, or the introduction of branches of the wild tree among those of the cultivated fig to make it ripen (Plin. N. H. 15. 79; Colum. II. 2) took place in July; and it strikes me as just possible that there may have been a connexion between it and the Nonae Caprotinae.

[745]. Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. l. c.

[746]. Macrob. 3. 2. 11 and 14. Macrobius also quotes Varro in the 15th book of his Res Divinae ‘Quod pontifex in sacris quibusdam vitulari soleat, quod Graeci παιανίζειν vocant.’ Perhaps we may compare visceratio: Serv. Aen. 5. 215.

[747]. Above, p. [176].

[748]. Marq. 170.

[749]. See Marq. 384, and Lex. s. v. Apollo 447.