[1377]. Aeneidea, 3. 15. He well compares Lucan, 9. 990. Tylor, Prim. Cult. ii. 332. Aeneas is here, as always, the true type of the practical Roman.
[1378]. Marq. 311 and reff.
[1379]. Fasti, 2. 617 foll. Among the calendars it is only mentioned in those of Philocalus and Silvius, and in the rustic calendars. Valerius Maximus is the next writer after Ovid who mentions it: 2. 1. 8. Cp. C. I. L. vi. 10234. Martial calls it ‘lux propinquorum’ (9. 55, cp. 54). For an interesting conjecture as to the special meaning of carus, see Lattes quoted in De-Marchi, op. cit. 214, note 2.
[1380]. Val. Max. l. c. and Silvius’ Calendar.
[1381]. Ovid, Fasti, 2. 623,
Innocui veniant: procul hinc, procul impius esto
Frater, et in partus mater acerba suos.
[1382]. Ovid, Fasti, 2. 633-634. On such occasions the Lares were clothed in tunics girt at the loins; see a figure of a Lar on an altar from Caere in Baumeister, Denkmäler, vol. i. p. 77.
[1383]. Fasti, 2. 571 foll.
[1384]. Line 583. See Wissowa in Lex. s. v. Dea Muta.