Category: History - Ancient
hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem et Capitolia ducit, aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis. _iam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestis_ _dira loci_: iam tum silvam saxumque tremebant. "hoc nemus, hunc," inquit, "frondoso vertice collem, (quis deus, incertum est) habitat deus."
[441] Marquardt, p. 324, for the _februa_ of the Luperci, _R.F._ p. 320 foll., and the explanations there given. More will be found alluded to in Van Gennep, _Les Rites de passa...
3. i. 302), in which he says that there were three Silvanito each _possessio_ or large estate of later times: "S. domesticus, possessioni consecratus: alter agrestis, pastoribus consecratus: tertius orientalis, cui est in confinio lucu...
8. did. My opinion is of no value on such a point; but I amdisposed to agree with Mr. Hirtzel that "versus valde Vergilianos, ab optimis codicibus omissos, iniuria obleverunt Tucca et Varius." They are certainly in keeping with the pict...
7. book I have been quoting, "pervading all nature (_pertinens per naturamcuiusque rei_), can be understood as Ceres on the land, as Neptune on the sea, and so on, and may be and should be worshipped in all these different forms;" not in superstitious...
2. v. 432), and that the iron taboo came in with the iron[50] There has been much discussion of this question; I entirely agree with Wissowa (_R.K._ p. 354, where references are given for the opposite opinion) that there is no evidenc...
4. vi. I doubt whether the theory of the learned authors[402] Marquardt, p. 185, asserted the contrary, but cited no evidence except Serv. _Aen._ vi. 253, which does not prove the practice of the holocaust to be really Roman. Wissowa...
6. xiii. 84; Valerius Antias, who simply stated that thewritings were Pythagorean as well as Numan, Livy rejects as ignorant of the chronological impossibility of making the king contemporary with the philosopher. The fragment of Cas...
1. viii. 347):--hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem et Capitolia ducit, aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis. _iam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestis_ _dira loci_: iam tum silvam saxumque tremeban...