[1299]. Ovid, Fast. 1. 633; Varro in Gell. 16. 6. 4. Nettleship takes a different view of these words. But see Wissowa in Lex. 1. 853; Preller, i. 406.
[1300]. St. Augustine, C. D. 4. 11 ‘In illis deabus quae fata nascentibus canunt et vocantur Carmentes.’
[1301]. Asiatic Studies, p. 20.
[1302]. Cic. Brut. 14. 56; C. I. L. vi. 3720; and Eph. Ep. iv. 759. The rite of Jan. 11 is called ‘sacrum pontificale’ by Ovid (Fast. 1. 462), whence we infer that the pontifices had a part in it as well as the flamen.
[1303]. Ovid, Fast. 1. 629. Cp. Varro, L. L. 7. 84. This passage of Varro may possibly raise a doubt whether the taboo did not arise from a mistaken interpretation of the words scortum and pellicula, as Carmenta was especially worshipped by matrons.
[1304]. The more so as we have no inscriptions relating to Carmenta. Though her flaminium continued to exist under the Empire, she herself practically disappeared. I am inclined to guess that her attributes were to some extent usurped by the more popular and plebeian Fortuna.
[1305]. Solinus, 1. 13; Serv. Aen. 8. 336 and 337.
[1306]. See especially under [April 1] and [28], the days of Fortuna virilis and Flora.
[1307]. Ovid, Fasti, 6. 223 foll.
[1308]. Juturnalia, Serv. Aen. 12. 139.