[880]. B.C. 272 (Festus, 209; Aust, p. 14).
[881]. For this altar, Tertull. Spect. 5 and 8; Dionys. 1. 33; Tac. Ann. 12. 24; Serv. Aen. 8. 636.
[882]. No correction of this word seems satisfactory: see Mommsen, C. I. L. 326.
[883]. Wissowa, Lex. s. v. Consus, 926.
[884]. Suggested by Mommsen, C. I. L. 326, and accepted by Wissowa. Unluckily Columella (r. 6), in alluding to the practice, says nothing of its occurrence in Italy. The alternative explanation was suggested to me by Robertson Smith (Religion of the Semites, 107): see also a note in Müller-Deecke, Etrusker, ii. 100; and below on Terminalia (p. [325]).
[885]. The underground altar of Dis Pater in the Campus Martius, at which the ludi saeculares were in part celebrated (Zosimus, 2. 1), may have had a like origin.
[886]. Qu. Rom. 40: cf. Dionys. 1. 33.
[887]. Fast. Praen.; C. I. L. 237.
[888]. 2. 31, where he says that they were kept up in his own day: cf. Strabo, Bk. 5.3. 2.
[889]. p. 148.