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

by W. Warde Fowler

[920]. Op. cit. vii.; Mommsen, C. I. L. 327 declines to follow him here.

[921]. L. L. 6. 20. The MSS. read Ope Consiva; so Mommsen in C. I. L. 327. Wissowa adopts the other form.

[922]. See Mommsen, l. c., and Marquardt, 212.

[923]. See on Vestalia above, p. [147], and Marq. 251.

[924]. Colum. 12 4. Cited in De Marchi, Il Culto privato di Roma Antica (Milan, 1896), p. 56. See my paper in Classical Review for Oct. 1896: vol. x. p. 317 foll.

[925]. C. I. L. 327.

[926]. Preller, ii. 142.

[927]. Aen. 8. 330.

[928]. In Preller, ii. 143. In the passage of Lucretius Volturnus is coupled with Auster: ‘Inde aliae tempestates ventique secuntur, Altitonam Volturnus et Auster fulmine pollens.’ Columella (11. 2. 65) says that some people use the name for the east wind (cp. Liv. 22. 43).

[929]. Röm. Jahr, 251.