Why were funeral rites performed in December instead of February? 223. 35. Why is worship paid to the harlot Laurentia? 223. 36. Why is one gate at Rome known as the Window? 224. 37. Why are spoils taken in war allowed to decay? 225. 38. Why was divination prohibited after the month of August? 225. 39. Why is it unlawful for a man not yet mustered into the army to slay an enemy? 226. 40. Why was it unlawful to anoint a priest of Jupiter in the open air? 226. 41. Why on the ancient coin was Janus stamped, with a ship on the reverse? 228. 42. Why is the temple of Saturn used as the public treasury? 228. 43. Why must ambassadors go to Saturn’s temple, and be there registered? 229. 44. Why must not priests of Jupiter swear? 229. 45. Why at the feast of Venus is wine so freely used? 230. 46. Why would the ancients have the temple of Horta to stand always open? 230. 47. Why did Romulus build the temple of Vulcan without the city? 231. 48. Why were garlands used in the Consualia? 231. 49. Why did candidates for office appear without tunics? 232. 50. Why did the priest of Jupiter, on the death of his wife, resign his office? 232. 51. Why is a dog set before the Lares, and why are the Lares covered with dogs’ skins? 233. 52. Why is a dog sacrificed to Geneta, &c.? 233. 53. Why, at the Capitoline games, are Sardians offered for sale by a crier? 234. 54. Why is the flesh-market called Macellum? 234. 55. Why do the minstrels wear women’s apparel on the Ides of January? 234. 56. Why is it supposed that matrons built the temple of Carmenta? 235. 57. Why is milk plentifully used in the women’s sacrifice to Rumina? 236. 58. Why are some senators called Patres, and others Patres Conscripti? 236. 59. Why was one altar common to Hercules and the Muses? 236. 60. Why, of the two altars of Hercules, do the women not partake of the greater? 237. 61. Why is the name of the tutelary god of Rome not allowed to be mentioned? 237. 62. Why of the Feciales was the Pater Patratus accounted the chief? 238. 63. Why is the Rex Sacrorum forbidden to bear civil office? 238. 64. Why after eating must something always be left on the table? 239. 65. The first congress with a wife, why must it be in the dark? 239. 66. Why was a horse-race round called Flaminia? 239. 67. Whence the name _lictors_? 239. 68. Why do the Luperci sacrifice a dog? 240. 69. Why upon the Septimontium are chariots not drawn by a pair of horses? 240. 70. Why are convicted thieves called Furciferi? 241. 71. Why is hay bound to the horns of unruly oxen? 241. 72. Why must the lanterns of soothsayers be open at the top? 242. 73. Why were priests, afflicted with sores, forbidden to use divination? 242. 74. Why did Servius Tullius build a temple of Small Fortune? 243. 75. Why did the Romans not extinguish a candle? 243. 76. Why were little moons worn on the shoes? 244. 77. Why was the year Jupiter’s, but the month Juno’s? 244. 78.