[1219]. Gellius, N. A. 7. 7; for the Flamen Quir. cf. Gilbert, 1. 88. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1. 15. 8. Varro, l. c. says vaguely ‘sacerdotes nostri.’ Plut. Romulus, 4, gives ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεος ἱερεύς, wrongly.
[1220]. ‘Sacerdotes nostri publice parentant’ (Varro, l. c.).
[1221]. Cic. de Legibus, 2. 21. 54; Plut. Q. R. 34.
[1222]. Plutarch is often led on in this work from one question to another by something he finds in the book he is consulting for the first.
[1223]. Livy, 31. 21; 34. 53. The MSS have ‘deo Iovi’ in the former passage, and ‘Iovis’ in the second; but it is almost certain that Vediovis is the deity referred to. See Mommsen in C. I. L. i. 2. 305 for the confusion in these passages, and in Livy, 35. 41. (Cp. Ovid, Fasti, i. 291-3.)
[1224]. Livy, Epit. 11, and 10. 47; Preller, ii. 241; Plut. Q. R. 94; Jordan, in Comm. in hon. Momms. p. 349 foll.
[1225]. See under [May 21]. Deecke, Falisker, 96.
[1226]. Livy, 33. 42, 34. 53; Jordan, l. c.
[1227]. These and their later history are the subject of a most exhaustive treatise by Martin Lipenius, in Graevius’ Thesaurus, vol. xii, p. 405. See also Marq. Privatleben, 1. 2, 245. For the sentiment implied in the strenae see Ovid, Fasti, 1. 71 foll. and 175.
[1228]. Cp. Fest. 290.