[930]. This represents the length which the ludi had attained in Cicero’s time (Verr. i. 10. 31). September 4 was probably added after Caesar’s death (Mommsen in C. I. L. 328).
[931]. C. I. L. 281.
[932]. R. R. I. 33.
[933]. See Mommsen’s masterly essay in his Römische Forschungen, vol. ii. p. 42 foll. Aust, in Myth. Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 732.
[934]. Mommsen, Röm. Chronol. 86 foll.
[935]. The ‘equorum probatio,’ preliminary to the races in the circus, took place on the day after the Ides: see above, p. [27].
[936]. Mommsen (C. I. L. 328, and Röm. Forsch. ii. 43 foll.) points out that the real centre-point and original day of the ludi proper was the day of the great procession (pompa) from the Capitol to the Circus maximus; and that this was probably the 15th, two days after the epulum, because the 14th, being postriduanus, was unlucky, and that day was also occupied by the ‘equorum probatio.’ (See Fasti Sab., Maff., Vall., Amit. and Antiat.)
[937]. See below, p. [234]. For the dies natalis, see Aust, in Lex. s.v. Iuppiter, p. 707; Plutarch, Poplic. 14.
[938]. Mommsen, Röm. Forsch. l. c.
[939]. Livy, 36. 2. 3. The passage refers to ludi magni, i. e. special votive games, vowed after the fixed organization of the ludi Romani; but it is none the less illustrative of the latter, as they originated in votive games.