[59] “Numa established also the auspicious and inauspicious days, for with the people an adjournment might sometimes be useful.” (Titus Livius, I. 19.) [60] “We have a town, founded on the faith of auspices and auguries; not a spot within these walls which is not full of gods and their worshippers; our solemn sacrifices have their days fixed as well as the place where they are to be made.” (Titus Livius, V. 52, _Speech of Camillus_, VI. &c.) [61] Cicero, _De Republica_, II. 14. [62] “All religious acts, public and private, were submitted to the decision of the pontiff; thus the people knew to whom to address themselves, and disorders were prevented which might have brought into religion the neglect of the national rites or the introduction of foreign ones. It was the same pontiff’s duty also to regulate what concerned funerals, and the means of appeasing the Manes, and to distinguish, among prodigies announced by thunder and other phenomena, those which required an expiation.” (Titus Livius, I. 20.) [63] “The grand pontiff exercises the functions of interpreter and diviner, or rather of hierophant. He not only presides at the public sacrifices, but he also inspects those which are made in private, and takes care that the ordinances of religious worship are not transgressed. Lastly, it is he who teaches what each individual ought to do to honour the gods and to appease them.” (Plutarch, _Numa_, 12.) [64] “Numa divided the year into twelve months, according to the moon’s courses; he added January and February to the year.” (Titus Livius, I. 19.--Plutarch, _Numa_, 18.) [65] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 73. [66] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 64. [67] Salian is derived from _salire_ (to leap, to dance). (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 70.)--It was their duty, on certain occasions, to execute sacred dances, and to chant hymns in honour of the god of war. [68] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 72.--“The name of _feciales_ is derived from the circumstance that they presided over the public faith between peoples; for it was by their intervention that war when undertaken assumed the character of a just war, and, that once terminated, peace was guaranteed by a treaty. Before war was undertaken, some of the _feciales_ were sent to make whatever demands had to be made.” (Varro, _De Lingua Latina_, V. § 86.)--“If allies complained that the Romans had done them wrong, and demanded reparation for it, it was the business of the _feciales_ to examine if there were any violation of treaty.” (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 72.)--Those _fecial_ priests had been instituted by Numa, the mildest and most just of kings, to be guardians of peace, and the judges and arbiters of the legitimate motives for undertaking war. (Plutarch, _Camillus_, 20.) [69] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, IV. 14.--Pliny, _Natural History_, XXI. 8. [70] Numa raised a temple to Romulus, whom he deified under the name of _Quirinus_. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, II. 63)