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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1239]. Pliny, N. H. 36. 204; Macrob. 1. 7. 34; Dion. l. c.

[1240]. Asconius, p. 6, K. Sch. Livy, 34. 7. 2.

[1241]. So Wissowa, de Feriis, xii note. Cp. his article ‘Agonium’ in the new edition of Pauly’s Real-Encycl.

[1242]. p. 10. Cp. Ovid, Fasti, 1. 331 ‘Et pecus antiquus dicebat agonia sermo.’

[1243]. He uses the plural: ‘Agonales (dies) per quos rex in regia arietem immolat’ (L. L. 6. 12). But only Jan. 9 seems to be alluded to.

[1244]. Fasti, 1. 325; cf. Macrob. 1. 16. 5.

[1245]. Civ. Dei, 4. 11. 16. Ambrosch (Studien, 149) thinks it possible that Agonius may have been a god of the Colline city.

[1246]. Bücheler, Umbrica, p. 30. B. apparently sees in the Umbrian ‘sakreu perakneu’ an equivalent to ‘hostias agonales.’ The Iguvian ritual is certainly the most likely document to be useful; it at least shows how large was the store of sacrificial vocabulary.

[1247]. Fest. p. 10. For the Salii, Varro, L. L. 6. 14.

[1248]. Wissowa, de Feriis, xii.