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

by W. Warde Fowler

[1359]. Comp. Ovid, l. c. with Fest. 254; Paul. 316; Varro, L. L. 6. 13; Plut. Q. R. 89.

[1360]. H. N. 18. 8; Lange, Röm. Alt. 1. 2. 245.

[1361]. Fasti, 2. 527 foll.

[1362]. That it was so is proved by Fest. 254, and Varro, L. L. 6. 13. It must have been a custom fairly well fixed.

[1363]. ii. 9.

[1364]. 2. 23, Ἐγὼ γοῦν ἐθεασάμην ἐν ἱεραῖς οἰκάις δεῖπνα προκείμενα θεοῖς ἐπὶ τραπέζαις ξυλίναις ἀρχαικαῖς, ἐν κάνησι καὶ πινακίσκοις κεραμέοις ἀλφίτων μάζας καὶ πόπανα καὶ ζέας καὶ καρπῶν τινων ἐπαρχάς &c.

[1365]. Fasti, 2. 525. What does Ovid mean by fruges?

[1366]. Paul. 93, quoted above; Ovid, l. c. 525. Fornax as a spirit may be at least as old as those of other parts of the house, Janus, Vesta, Limentinus, &c.

[1367]. Mommsen, Röm. Forschungen, i. 149 foll.

[1368]. Lydus, de Mens. 4. 24. Lydus gives the 22nd as the final day; Ovid, Fasti, 2. 569, gives the 21st (Feralia).