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The Religious Experience Of The Roman People From The Earliest

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."

Chapters

5. Chapter 5

[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. Chapter 3

to each _possessio_ or large estate of later times: "S. domesticus, possessioni consecratus: alter agrestis, pastoribus consecratus: tertius orientalis, cui est in confinio lucu...

8. Chapter 8

disposed 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. Chapter 7

cuiusque 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. Chapter 2

[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. Chapter 4

[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. Chapter 6

writings 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. Chapter 1

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...