The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic / An Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans

by W. Warde Fowler

[810]. Macrob. 3. 12. 2; Varro, L. L. 6. 15. The uncovered head also occurs in the cult of Saturnus; and R. Peter argues that the custom may after all be old-Italian (Lex. 2928).

[811]. Marquardt, Privatalterthümer, vol. i, p. 291.

[812]. See above, p. [142] foll. Plut. Qu. Rom. 60; Macrob. 1. 12. 38. In Q. R. 90 Plutarch notes that no other god might be mentioned at the sacrifice, and no dog might be admitted.

[813]. de Re Rustica, 83.

[814]. The word was profanatum, opposed to polluctum (see Marq. 149).

[815]. Aen. 8. 281 foll.

[816]. Salii are found in the cult of Hercules also at Tibur: Macrob. 3. 12. 7. See a note of Jordan in Preller, i. 352.

[817]. Lex. 2931 foll.; C. I. L. i. 149 foll.

[818]. The examples are collected by R. Peter in Lex. 2935.

[819]. Festus, 253, s. v. pollucere merces; Plut. Qu. Rom. 18; Vita Sullae, 35; Crassi, 2; Lex. 2032 foll.