[800]. Paulus, 23; Quintil. 1. 7. 12; Varro, L. L. 5. 52 (from the ‘sacra Argeorum’), if we read ‘adversum Solis pulvinar cis aedem Salutis.’ The name is said to be connected with the Umbrian and Etruscan god of light, Usil, a word thought to be recognizable in Aurelius (= Auselius, Varro, l. c.), and in the Ozeul of the Salian hymn (Wordsworth, Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin, p. 564 foll.).
[801]. So e. g. Virgil, Georg. 1. 498 ‘Di patrii indigites et Romule Vestaque Mater.’ Peter, in Lex. s. v. Indigitamenta, 132.
[802]. i. 325.
[803]. Lex. s. v. Indigitamenta, 137.
[804]. Wissowa, de Romanorum Indigetibus et Novensidibus (Marburg, 1892).
[805]. Merkel, Praef. in Ov. Fastos, cxxxv; Mommsen, C. I. L. 324.
[806]. Lex. s. v. Hercules, 2903 foll., where R. Peter has summarized and criticized all the various opinions.
[807]. Liv. I. 7.
[808]. Dionys. I. 40, who says that the duties were performed by slaves in his day. See Lex. 2925 for a long list of conjectures about this part of the legend. The Potitii never occur in inscriptions; and I think with Jordan (Preller, ii. 291) that the name is imaginary, invented to account for the functions of the slaves.
[809]. C. I. L. vi. 312-319, found on the site of the aedes.