[1339]. Marq. 180, Bouché-Leclercq, 178.
[1340]. See Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 406.
[1341]. Fasti, 2. 19 foll.
[1342]. This difficult line has occasioned much conjecture, and seems still inexplicable. See Merkel, Fasti, clxvi foll.; and De-Marchi, op. cit. p. 246.
[1343]. Aust, De Aedibus sacris, pp. 21, 45, 48. On this last page are some useful remarks on the danger of drawing conclusions as to the indigenous or foreign origin of deities from the position of their temples inside or outside the pomoerium.
[1344]. Fasti, 2. 55 foll.
[1345]. Livy, 33. 42; 34. 53. Jordan, in Commentationes in hon. Momms. 359 foll.; Aust, op. cit. p. 20.
[1346]. See Dict. of Antiq. s.v. sacra. Fest. 245 a ‘Publica sacra, quae publico sumptu pro populo fiunt: quaeque pro montibus, pagis, curiis, sacellis.’
[1347]. Ovid, Fasti, 2. 527. See under Quirinalia.
[1348]. See on [April 15]. There must have been at one time a tendency to amalgamate the two kinds of sacra publica. The argei were also attended by Pontifices and Vestals. I should conjecture that the Pontifices claimed supervision over rites in which they had originally no official locus standi, and brought the Vestals with them.