[781]. Cp. Serv. Aen. 5. 724 ‘(Venus) dicitur et Salacia, quae proprie meretricum dea appellata est a veteribus.’
[782]. Gell. 5. 12; Henzen, Act. Fratr. Arv. 124. Wissowa, in his article ‘Neptunus,’ goes too far, as it seems to me, when he asserts that the ‘pater’ belonged to all deities of the oldest religion. See below, p. [220].
[783]. Liv. 5. 13. 6; Dionys. 12. 9. Wissowa, Lex. s. v. Nept. 203, for his further history as Poseidon.
[784]. Wissowa in Lex. l. c. I doubt if much can be made of the argument that the Neptunalia on the 23rd is necessarily connected with the Lucaria on the 17th and 19th—i. e. three alternate days, like the three days of the Lemuria in May.
[785]. Varro, L. L. 5. 84 ‘Furinalis (flamen) a Furina quoius etiam in fastis Furinales feriae sunt’: cp. 6. 19 ‘Ei sacra instituta annua et flamen attributus: nunc vix nomen notum paucis.’
[786]. See Wissowa’s short and sensible note in Lex. s. v. Furrina. For the confusion with Furiae, Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3. 46; Plut. C. Gracch. 17; Lex. s. v. Furiae. Jordan, in Preller, ii. 70, is doubtful on the etymological question.
[787]. p. 71.
[788]. In Preller, ii. 121.
[789]. Röm. Jahr, 221.