[840]. Mannhardt, A. W. F. 328 foll.

[841]. Festus, 343, ‘Servorum dies.’

[842]. See above, p. [75].

[843]. Strabo, Bk. 4, p. 180; Farnell, Greek Cults, ii. 529 and 592.

[844]. Liv. 5. 13: Apollo and Latona, Diana and Hercules, Mercurius and Neptunus.

[845]. Lex. 1007. The excavations at Nemi have produced several votive offerings in terra cotta of women with children in their arms. Cp. Ovid, Fasti, 3. 269. Plutarch tells us (Q. R. 3) that men were excluded from a shrine of Diana in the Vicus Patricius; but of this nothing further is known.

[846]. Plut. Q. R. 100; Jevons, Introduction, p. lxviii.

[847]. Frazer, Golden Bough, i. 187.

[848]. C. I. L. vi. 656, 658.

[849]. Frazer, G. B. i. 105: cp. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 128 foll. Serv. Georg. 3. 332 ‘Ut omnis quercus Iovi est consecrata, et omnis lucus Dianae.’ (Hor. Od. 1. 21.) The reclaiming of Diana from the woodland to the homestead is curiously illustrated by an inscription from Aricia (Wilmanns, Exempla, 1767) in which she is identified with Vesta.