[760]. Jordan on Preller, i. 265.
[761]. Aen. 11. 785 ‘Summe deum, sancti custos Soractis Apollo,’ &c.
[762]. Serv. Aen. 10. 316 ‘Omnes qui secto matris ventre procreantur, ideo sunt Apollini consecrati, quia deus medicinae est, per quam lucem sortiuntur. Unde Aesculapius eius fingitur filius: ita enim eum [esse] procreatum supra (7. 761) diximus. Caesarum etiam familia ideo sacra retinebat Apollinis, quia qui primus de eorum familia fuit, exsecto matris ventre natus est. Unde etiam Caesar dictus est.’
[763]. A concise account by Roscher, Lex. s. v. Apollo 448; Boissier, Religion Romaine, i. 96 foll.; Gardthausen, Augustus, vol. ii, p. 873. For the ludi saeculares see especially Mommsen’s edition of the great but mutilated inscription recently discovered in the Campus Martius (Eph. Epigr. viii. 1 foll.); Diels, Sibyllin. Blätter, p. 109 foll.; and the Carmen Saeculare of Horace, with the commentaries of Orelli and Wickham.
[764]. L. L. 6. 18 fin. and 19 init.
[765]. Festus, 119. s. v. Lucaria.
[766]. The battle of the Allia was fought on the 18th, the day before the first Lucaria. This no doubt suggested the legend connecting the two, especially as the Via Salaria, near which was the grove of the festival, crossed the battle-field some ten miles north of Rome.
[767]. See Friedländer in Marq. 487; Plutarch, Q. R. 88.
[768]. Mommsen in Ephemeris Epigraphica, ii. 205.
[769]. i. III; Liv. 24. 3; Cato, ap. Priscian, 629. Much useful matter bearing on luci as used for boundaries, asyla, markets, &c., will be found in Rudorff, Gromatici Veteres, ii. 260.