INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
Marriages, 293; customs, 142; ill-omened in March and May, 60, 67, 100, 109, 293; prohibited, 146, 308.
Mars, 53, 60, 313; birthday, 5, 36-8, 60; comparison with Apollo, 39-40; connexion with Hercules, 194-5, 196; with Juno, 37-8, 133-4; with March, 33-5, 48, 64-5, 99; with Minerva, 53, 59-60, 62; with Nerio, 60-2, 186; with Quirinus, 322-3; with Robigus, 89, 324; with Romulus, 33, 37 (n. 3); with Silvanus, 55, 194; festivals, 44-6, 57-63, 123, 241-50, 290, 313, 330-1; functions, 34-5, 41, 43, 64-5, 89, 248-9, 250, 262; god of powers of vegetation and reproduction, 34-5; 41, 48-9, 64, 126-7, 196; Greek influence, 35, 37; laurel sacred to, 35-6; origin, 34-5, 64; priests: see Salii; Sacrarium Martis, 39, 44, 324, 335; shields: see Ancilia; temples, 133-4, 232; war-god, 126, 207, 248, 249.
Mater Larum, 240.
Mater Matuta, 154-6, 165.
Matralia, 154-6, 165.
Matronalia, 38.
May, 2, 3; character, 6, 33, 100; festivals, 33, 98-128; origin of name, 6, 33, 98-100.
Meals: see also Epulum Jovis; sacrificial, 81, 96-7, 194, 218-20, 308, 309.
Meditrinalia, 236, 239-40.
Megalesia, 69-71.
Men: exclusion from cults, 102-3, 142, 256; oaths of, 138-9, 142.
Mens, 145.
Mercurius: connexion with Hermes, 121, 186; with Jupiter, 120; with Maia, 98-9, 120; coupled with Neptunus, 181, 186; god of trade, 121; temples, 121, 339.
Mildew: see Rust.
Minerva: connexion with Mars, 53, 59-60, 62; with Nerio, 59-62; festivals, 59, 62, 158; goddess of trumpet players, 62, 158; nail driven into cella of, 234-5; one of Etruscan trias, 218, 220, 229, 235, 339; temples, 59, 157-8, 215, 216-7, 326-7, 339.
Mola salsa: see Salt-cake.
Montes, 266-7; festivals of, 16, 265-7, 335.
Months, 5-7, 33-4; divisions, 7-8; lunar, 7; names, 5-7, 33-4, 99-100; number of days, 2-3; solar, 1.
Mundus, 211-2; open, 211-2, 239, 252.
Myrtle, 68; excluded from temple of Bona Dea, 103-4.
Nails driven into temples, 172, 217, 234-5.
Nemesis, 170.
Neptunalia, 173, 185-7.
Neptunus, 185-7; connexion with Poseidon, 185, 186, 187; with Salacia, 186; coupled with Mercurius, 181, 186; functions, 185, 187.
Nerio, 134-5; connexion with Mars, 60-2, 186; with Minerva, 59-62.
Nerthus, 117.
New Year: see March.
Nones, 7, 8; Nonae Caprotinae, 174, 175, 178-9.
Nortia, 235; connexion with Fortuna, 171-2.
November: character, 252; festivals, 252-4.
Numa: connexion with calendar, 4, 335-6; legends, 262-3, 278.
Numbers: lucky and unlucky, 3.
Oak of Jupiter Feretrius, 229, 232, 334.
Oaths, 138-9, 142, 231, 297, 327; Jupiter’s connexion with, 139, 229-30, 326; taken at Ara Maxima, 138-9.
Octaeteris cycle, 2-3.
October, 2, 3; character, 236-7; festivals, 237-51.
October-horse, 45, 58, 241-50; blood kept by Vestal Virgins, 83, 150, 243, 247; corn-spirit represented by, 83, 244-8; races, 45, 58, 242, 245-6; sacrifice of, 83, 241-2.
Opalia, 255, 273-4.
Opeconsivia, 115, 150, 189, 212-4, 290.
Ops, 74, 338; connexion with Consus, 212-3; with Saturnus, 212, 273-4; Consiva, 212; festival, 115, 150, 212-4, 273-4; Opifera, 210; temple, 273-4.