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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1179]. e. g. Virg. Aen. 8. 321.

[1180]. See, however, Schwegler, R. G. i. 223 foll.

[1181]. Varro, L. L. 5. 42; Dion. Hal. i. 34 (cp. 6. 1); Fest. 322; Solinus, 1. 13; Servius, Aen. 2. 115; Middleton, Rome in 1885, p. 166.

[1182]. R. Peter, s. v. Dis in Lex. 1181; Macr. 1. 11. 48.

[1183]. Lucan, 3. 153; Middleton, op. cit. 167.

[1184]. Preller, ii. 13; i. 182.

[1185]. The temple was traditionally dated B.C. 497 (Livy, 2. 21); cp. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 4: so too the festival, though both had an older origin (Ambrosch. Stud. 149). The latter was reorganized in Greek fashion in obedience to a Sibylline oracle in B.C. 217 (Livy, 22. 1).

[1186]. Plut. Q. R. 34 notes the cult of such gods when all fruits have been gathered.

[1187]. Macr. 1. 8. 3 and 1. 16. 30 (also, but probably in error, attributed to Jupiter). Plut. Q. R. 42, and Poplic. 12, states it distinctly; but there is no indication of the source from which he drew.

[1188]. Cp. the legendary connexion of both with ship-building and the coining of money; though it is of course possible that this was simply suggested by the Janus-head and the ship of early Roman coins.