[1405]. Rom. 21: quoted above, p. [311]. Val. Max. l. c. seems also to imply it: ‘Facto sacrificio caesisque capris, epularum hilaritate ac vino largiore provecti, divisa pastorali turba, cincti pellibus immolatarum hostiarum, iocantes obvios petiverunt.’
[1406]. Even this point is not quite certain; but see Hartung, Rel. der Römer, ii. 178, and Mannhardt, 78.
[1407]. Ox, sheep and pig were the usual victims; the dog was only offered to Robigus (see on [April 25]), to the Lares Praestites and to Mana Geneta; the goat only to Bacchus and Aesculapius, foreign deities (Marq. 172). The goat-skin of Juno Sospita is certainly Greek: Lex. s. v. Iuno, 595. The goat was a special Hebrew piaculum (Robertson Smith, 448; cf. 453).
[1408]. Robertson Smith, 379.
[1409]. Ib. 381.
[1410]. Rom. 21 οἱ μὲν ᾐμαγμένῃ μαχαίρᾳ τοῦ μετώπου θιγγάνουσιν, ἕτεροι δ’ ἀπομάττουσιν εὐθὺς ἔριον βεβρεγμένον γάλακτι προσφέροντες. Γελᾶν δὲ δεῖ τὰ μειρόκια μετὰ τὴν ἀπόμαξιν.
[1411]. So Schwegler. l. c. and reff. in Marq. 443 notes 11-13. Dion. Hal. (1. 32) compared the human sacrifice in the cult of Zeus Lycaeus in Arcadia. See Farnell, Cults, i. 40 foll.
[1412]. We ought to have the whole history of the Lupercalia if we are to explain it rightly; it is impossible to guess through what stages and changes it may have passed.
[1413]. 4. 478 (quoted in a valuable section (23) of Hermann’s Gottesdienstliche Alterthümer der Griechen).
[1414]. For examples of this idea see under Feb. 24 (Regifugium); Robertson Smith, 286; Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. 58 foll.