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

by W. Warde Fowler

[820]. Marq. 469; Festus, p. 318, s. v. sacrima.

[821]. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 233.

[822]. G. B. ii. 373 foll.

[823]. In the legend Hercules gave a tenth part of his booty to the inhabitants of the place (Dionys 1. 40).

[824]. See Mommsen in C. I. L. i. 150.

[825]. e. g. in Bréal, Hercule et Cacus.

[826]. See Lex. 2286 (R. Peter, quoting Reifferscheid).

[827]. Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xiii. 73. Professor Gardner is inclined to consider the myth as Phoenician rather than Greek, and attached to the Phoenician Melcarth = Herakles. The vase is in the Ashmolean Museum, and was found by the Keeper, Mr. Arthur Evans.

[828]. Mon. dell’ Inst. v. 25. But the character of the vase is archaic Ionian, as Prof. Gardner tells me; Lex. 2275.

[829]. H. Peter, Fragmenta Hist. Rom. p. 166 (= Solinus, i. 7).