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

by W. Warde Fowler

[890]. Friedländer in Marq. 482. For the connexion of games with harvest see Mannhardt. Myth. Forsch. 172 foll.

[891]. Varro (ap. Non. p. 13) quotes an old verse which seems to the point here: ‘Sibi pastores ludo faciunt coriis consualia.’

[892]. Varro, L. L. 6. 20; Serv. Aen. 8. 636; Dionys. 2. 31; Cic. Rep. 2. 12.

[893]. See above, p. [178].

[894]. Vol. ii. 171 foll., 372 foll.

[895]. de Spect. 8.

[896]. See above, p. [89]; Ovid, Fasti, 4. 908.

[897]. Festus, p. 210, s. v. piscatorii ludi (Varro, L. L. 6 20). The latter uses the word ‘animalia,’ and does not mention fish. The fish were apparently sacrificed at the domestic hearth; but it is doubtful whether Volcanus was ever a deity of the hearth-fire (see Schwegler, R. G. i. 714; Wissowa, de Feriis, xlv).

[898]. See below, p. [309]; Ovid, Fasti, 2. 571 foll.

[899]. See above on May 23, p. [123]; Varro, L. L. 5. 84; Macrob. 1. 12. 18; C. I. L. vi. 1628.