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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1129]. Schwegler, Röm. Gesch. i. 351.

[1130]. Varro, L. L. 7. 36 ‘Faunos in silvestribus locis traditum est solitos fari futura.’ Servius identifies Faunus and Fatuus; ad Aen. 6. 775.

[1131]. ‘Versibus quos olim Fauni vatesque canebant.’ Ennius in Varro, L. L. 7. 36. See Nettleship, Essays in Latin Literature, p. 50 foll.

[1132]. Mannhardt, A. W. F. 113 foll.

[1133]. L. L. 7. 36.

[1134]. Georg. 1. 10. The introduction of the Greek Dryads may be thought to throw suspicion upon the Latinity of these Fauni of Virgil. But in Aen. 8. 314, the similar conjunction of Fauni and Nymphae is followed by words which seem to mark a true Italian conception.

[1135]. Lex. s. v. Faunus, 1454.

[1136]. Aen. 8. 314.

[1137]. Cp. Ovid, Fasti, 3. 315 ‘Di sumus agrestes et qui dominemur in altis Montibus,’ &c. Cp. Preller, i. 386.

[1138]. Monumenti Antichi, vol. v. (Barnabei). Von Duhn, translated in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1896, p. 120 foll.