INDEX OF GREEK AUTHORS QUOTED
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Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
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39. C. I. L. 297 foll. (de feriis).
40. To these we may perhaps add the Poplifugia and Lucaria in July, the legends about which we can neither accept nor refute.
41. See Festus, 245; and Dict. Ant. s. v. Sacra.
42. Varro’s works, de Antiquitatibus humanis and divinis, and many others, only survive in the fragments quoted by later authors.
43. Paul the deacon was one of the scholars who found encouragement at the court of Charles the Great. His work is an abridgement of that of Festus, not of Verrius himself. On Verrius and his epitomators, as well as on the other writers who used his glosses, see H. Nettleship’s valuable papers in Essays in Latin Literature, p. 201 foll.
44. For more information about Lydus see Bury, Later Roman Empire, ii. 183, and below under March 14.
45. They will be found in Bücheler’s Umbrica (containing the processional inscription of Iguvium with commentary and translation), and Henzen’s Acta Fratrum Arvalium.
46. Preller’s Römische Mythologie (ed. 3, by H. Jordan) and Marquardt’s third volume of his Staatsverwaltung (ed. Wissowa) are both masterpieces, not only in matter but in manner.
47. Among the others may especially be mentioned Aust, a pupil of Wissowa, to whom we owe the excellent and exhaustive article on Jupiter; and R. Peter, the author of the article Fortuna and others, who largely reflects the views of the late Prof. Reifferscheid of Breslau.
48. ‘Hoc paene unum superest sincerum documentum,’ Wissowa, de Feriis, p. 1.
49. This is well illustrated in the Acta Fratrum Arvalium referred to above.
50. A succinct account of these tendencies will be found in Marquardt, p. 72 foll. There is a French translation of this invaluable volume.
51. A short account of these will be found in the author’s articles in the new edition of Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, on ‘Sacra,’ ‘Sacerdos,’ and ‘Sacrificium.’ On the domestic rites, there is an excellent book in Italian, which might well be translated: Il Culto privato di Roma antica, by Prof. De-Marchi of Milan, of which only Part I, La Religione nella vita domestica, has as yet appeared.
52. Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung, iii. p. 2.
53. N. Maff. Cf. Mommsen, C. I. L. 294 b.
54. F. Tusc. Cf. Mommsen, C. I. L. 294 b.
55. NP. Antiat. N. minores 6.
56. F. Antiat. Allif. NP Vall.
57. NP Vall. C. Antiat. C. I. L. 294.
58. C. Vall. Antiat.
59. N. Antiat. Cf. C. I. L. 294.
60. F. Maff.
61. See Nissen, Italienische Landeskunde, i. 404; Ovid, Fasti, 3. 235—
Quid, quod hiems adoperta gelu tunc denique cedit,
Et pereunt victae sole tepente nives,
Arboribus redeunt detonsae frigore frondes,
Uvidaque in tenero palmite gemma tumet:
Quaeque diu latuit, nunc se qua tollat in auras,
Fertilis occultas invenit herba vias.
Nunc fecundus ager: pecoris nunc hora creandi,
Nunc avis in ramo tecta laremque parat.
Tempora iure colunt Latiae fecunda parentes
Quarum militiam votaque partus habet.
Here we have the fertility of man, beast, and crop, all brought together: the poet is writing of March 1. The Romans reckoned spring from Favonius (Feb. 7) to about May 10 (Varro, R. R. 1. 38); March 1 would therefore usually be a day on which its first effects would be obvious to every one.
62. Sat. 1. 12. 6; Ovid, Fasti, 3. 135 foll.
63. Ovid only mentions one ‘curia’: in Macrobius the word is in the plural. Ovid must, I think, refer to the curia Saliorum on the Palatine (Marq. 431), as this was the day on which the Salii began their rites. Macrobius may be including the curia of the Quirinal Salii (Preller, i. 357).
64. See below, on the Vestalia in June, p. 147.
65. Julius Obsequens, 19.
66. Roscher, Myth. Lex. s. v. Mars, 2427. Roscher regards the use of laurel in the Mars-cult as parallel with that in the Apollo-cult and not derived from it. The point is not however certain. The laurel was used as an ἀποτρόπαιον at the Robigalia, which seems closely connected with the Mars-cult (Plin. N. H. 18, 161); here it could hardly have been taken over from the worship of Apollo.
67. Mommsen, C. I. L. 254.