88. _What is the reason that the monie emploied upon plates and publike shewes is called among them, Lucar?_ MAY it not well be that there were many groves about the citie consecrated unto the gods, which they named _Lucos_: the revenues whereof they bestowed upon the setting forth of such solemnities? 89. _Why call they_ Quirinalia, _the Feast of fooles_? WHETHER it is because (as _Juba_ writeth) they attribute this day unto those who knew not their owne linage and tribe? or unto such as have not sacrificed, as others have done according to their tribes, at the feast called _Fornacalia_. Were it that they were hindred by other affaires, or had occasion to be forth of the citie, or were altogether ignorant, and therefore this day was assigned for them, to performe the said feast. 90. _What is the cause, that when they sacrifice unto_ Hercules, _they name no other God but him, nor suffer a dog to be seene, within the purprise and precinct of the place where the sacrifice is celebrated, according as_ Varro _hath left in writing_? IS not this the reason of naming no god in their sacrifice, for that they esteeme him but a demigod; and some there be who hold, that whiles he lived heere upon the earth, _Evander_ erected an altar unto him, and offered sacrifice thereupon. Now of all other beasts he could worst abide a dog, and hated him most: for this creature put him to more trouble all his life time, than any other: witnesse hereof, the three headed dog _Cerberus_, and above all others, when _Oeonus_ the sonne of _Licymnius_ was slaine [146]by a dog, he was enforced by the Hippocoontides to give the battell, in which he lost many of his friends, and among the rest his owne brother _Iphicles_. 91. _Wherefore was it not lawfull for the Patricians or nobles of_ Rome _to dwell upon the mount Capitoll_? MIGHT it not be in regard of _M. Manlius_, who dwelling there attempted and plotted to be king of _Rome_, and to usurpe tyrannie; in hatred and detestation of whom, it is said, that ever after those of the house of _Manlij_, might not have _Marcus_ for their fore-name? Or rather was not this an old feare that the Romans had (time out of mind)? For albeit _Valerius Poplicola_ was a personage verie popular and well affected unto the common people; yet never ceased the great and mightie men of the citie to suspect and traduce him, nor the meane commoners and multitude to feare him, untill such time as himselfe caused his owne house to be demolished and pulled down, because it seemed to overlooke and commaund the common market place of the citie. 92. _What is the reason, that he who saved the life of a citizen in the warres, was rewarded with a coronet made of oake braunches?_ WAS it not for that in everie place and readily, they might meet with an oake, as they marched in their warlike expeditions.