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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1110]. R. R. 1. 35. 2; Colum. 2. 8. 2.

[1111]. xi. 2.

[1112]. Cp. Hor. Od. 3. 18, 9-12. Ovid (Fasti, 3. 57) says of December—Vester (i. e. Faustuli et Larentiae) honos veniet, cum Larentalia dicam; Acceptus Geniis illa December habet.

Is this only an allusion to Larentia and Faustulus, or also to the general character of the month and its festivals?

[1113]. Plut. Cic. 19; Dio Cass. 37. 35.

[1114]. Cic. ad Att. 1. 12, and 15. 25.

[1115]. Cic. de Harusp. resp. 17. 37 ‘fit per Virgines Vestales, fit pro populo Romano, fit in ea domo quae est in imperio.’ In 62 B.C. it was in Caesar’s house, and apparently in the Regia, if as pontifix maximus he resided there. See Marq. 346, note 1; 250, note 2.

[1116]. Fest. 245 publica sacra are ‘quae publico sumptu pro populo fiunt.’ See my article ‘Sacra’ in Dict. of Antiquities.

[1117]. Juvenal, 2. 86.

[1118]. 2. 83 foll.; 6. 314 foll.