[850]. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 15.
[851]. 5. (4.) 2.
[852]. Metaph. 14. 623 foll.; Preller, i. 451.
[853]. Varro. L. L. 7. 45. A god Pomonus (gen. Puemones) occurs in the Iguvian ritual (Bücheler, Umbrica, 158); who may have been identical with Vortumnus.
[854]. Varro, L. L. 5. 46.
[855]. Preller, i. 452, and Jordan’s note.
[856]. Festus, 217, s. v. persillum. All we know of his duties is that he ‘unguit arma Quirini’; the word for the oil or grease he used was ‘persillum.’ Quirinus had his own flamen, who might be supposed to do this office for him; hence Marq. (328 note) inferred that the god in this case was a form of Janus, Janus Quirinus. But there is no other sound evidence for a Janus Quirinus, though Janus and Portunus may be closely connected.
[857]. L. L. 6. 19.
[858]. C. I. L. 325. He thinks that the atria Tiberina mentioned by Ovid (Fasti, 4. 329) were a station on the route of the procession.
[859]. Mommsen has not convinced other scholars, e. g. Jordan on Preller, ii. 133, and Marq. 328, who points out that if Volturnus is an old name for the Tiber, that river-god was already provided with a flamen (Volturnalis), and a festival in this month (see below on Volturnalia). I am disposed to think that Mommsen’s critics have the best of the argument.