[790]. Varro, R. R. I. 33, has only the following: ‘Quinto intervallo, inter caniculam et aequinoctium auctumnale oportet stramenta desecari, et acervos construi, aratro offringi, frondem caedi, prata irrigua iterum secari.’
[791]. This is the natural position for the ager of the oldest community on the Palatine. The Campus Martius was believed to have been ‘king’s land’ of the later developed city (Liv. 2. 5).
[792]. Liv. 10. 1. 9; Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 10.
[793]. Marq. 377; Dio Cass. 37. 24 and 25; Tac. Ann. 12. 23.
[794]. C. I. L. i. 49 and 179.
[795]. See Preller, ii. 228; and article ‘Sacerdos’ in Dict. of Antiquities, new edition.
[796]. On this difficult subject see Dict. of Antiquities, s.v. Indigitamenta; and the long and exhaustive article by R. Peter in Roscher’s Lexicon (which is, however, badly written, and in some respects, I think, misleading).
[797]. See the valuable summary of Aust (in ten lines).
[798]. Plin. N. H. 35. 19.
[799]. 40. 19.