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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1139]. Röm. Myth. i. 104 foll.

[1140]. Virg. Aen. 8. 601, and Serv.’s note: ‘Prudentiores dicunt eum esse ὑλικὸν θέον, hoc est deum ὕλης.’ Silvanus may have been a true tree-spirit; Mannhardt, A. W. F. 118 foll.; Preller, i. 392.

[1141]. Vol. i. 335, ed. Hauthal.

[1142]. See above, p. [126]. It may be noticed that the Bona Dea, whose solemn rite occurs also at the beginning of this month, was identified with Fauna, the female form of Faunus (R. Peter, in Lex. s. v. Fauna); i. e. their powers for good and evil were thought to be much alike.

[1143]. Preller, i. 381 and reff.

[1144]. See under Lupercalia, p. [320].

[1145]. Ovid, Fasti, 3. 291 foll. I am glad to see that Wissowa accepts this story as genuine Italian (Lex. s. v. 1456).

[1146]. Cic. de Div. 1. 101; Livy, 2. 7 (Silvanus), and Dion. Hal. 5. 16 (Faunus) of the battle by the wood of Arsia.

[1147]. Fasti, 4. 649 foll.

[1148]. Aen. 7. 81 foll.