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

by W. Warde Fowler

De-Marchi, p. 231, gives a cut of a painting at Herculaneum which may represent a scene of this kind.

[1470]. Gromatici veteres, i. 141. See Rudorff in vol. ii. 236 for an interesting discussion of the religio terminorum and its ethical and legal results.

[1471]. Rudorff, l. c. 237.

[1472]. Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, 149.

[1473]. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, 187 foll.

[1474]. See under September, p. [229] foll. I may here notice the very curious ‘oraculum’ in Grom. Vet. p. 350 (ex libris Vegoiae) which connects Jupiter with the introduction of termini in Etruria.

[1475]. Ζεὺς ὅπιος he is called by Dion. Hal. (2. 74), where the cult is ascribed to Numa. Farnell, Cults of the Greek States i. 159.

[1476]. Aust, in Myth. Lex. s. v. Iuppiter, 668.

[1477]. Fasti, 2. 667; Liv. 1. 55; Serv. Aen. 9. 448. Augustine, C. D. 4. 23, adds Mars, and Dion. Hal. 3. 69 Iuventus to Terminus, who could not be ‘exauguratus.’

[1478]. Serv. Aen. 9. 448 ‘Unde in Capitolio prona pars tecti patet, quae lapidem ipsum Termini spectat.’ This is the ‘Capitoli immobile saxum’ of Virgil; see above, p. [230].