[87] The classical references are: Festus, p. 143 and 385; Dionys., i. 38; Ov., _F._, i. 56, iii. 791, v. 62 _ff._; Varro, _L. L._, vii. 44; Paul. Diac., p. 15; Lact, I. i. 21. 6; Macrob., i. 5. 10, and 11. 47; Prudent. _C. Symmach._, ii. 295; Cicero _pro Roscio Am._, 35. 100; Catull., xvii. 8. 23; Non. Marc., p. 358b.; Liv. i. 21, iv. 12. The modern literature: first and foremost and final, Mannhardt, _Wald- und Feldkulte_, p. 265 _ff._, whose explanation is adopted in Roscher's _Lexikon_; further, Preller, _Röm. M._^3, ii. 135 _ff._; Marquardt, 190 _ff._; Grimm, _D. M._, 733, _n._ 4. The meaning of the word _Argei_ has received no satisfactory explanation yet. The number of the images is accounted for by the fact that each of the twenty-four quarters of ancient Rome required rain for its crops. [88] See _Rhein. Museum_, 1867, p. 129. [89] Macrob., i. 10, 11 _ff._; Gell., _N. A._, vii. (vi.) 7; Plut., _Rom._, 4. 5; Lactant., i. 20. 5. [90] "Exuuntur etiam vestibus populo flagitante meretrices, quæ tunc (_i.e._, at the Floralia) mimarum funguntur officio" (Lact. _l.c._). _Cf._ Val. Max., 2. 10. 8; Senec., _Ep._, 97. 7; Mart., 1 _præf._; Ov., _F._, iv. 946, v. 183; Tertull., _De Spect._, 17; Min. Felix, 25. 8; Augustin, _C. D._, ii. 27. [91] The Arval Brothers wore a harvest-crown, _vittis spiceis coronati_, _C. I. L._, vi. 2104^a 16. They preserved a sheaf of corn (corn-baby, mother, &c.) from the previous year's harvest; this is the _fruges aridas_ of _C. I. L._, _l.c._ 6. They consecrated the old corn, the green corn of the new year, and a loaf, _fruges aridas et virides contigerunt et panes laureatos_, l.c.; and they sacramentally "ate the god," _fruges libatas_. [92] Mommsen, _Die echte und die falsche Acca Larentia_, 3 A. 3. [93] Jordan, _Krit. Beitr._, 75, compares Italian _atta_, "mother" and Greek ἀκκώ? [94] "E nos Lases iuvate" = Age nos, Lares, iuvate. [95] The classical references on this subject of beans are: Diog. Laert., viii. 24 and 34 (quoting Aristotle, ἤτοι ὅτι αἰδοίοις εἰσὶν ὅμοιοι), Gellius, N. A., iv. 11; Cic., _de Div._, i. 30, ii. 58; Pliny _N. H._, xviii. 12; Didymus in Geopon., ii. 58; Sext. Emp., _Pyrrh. Hyp._, iii. 224; Iambl., _Vit. Pyth._, 109 and _Protrept. extr. Symb._, 37; Anon. (e. Photio), _Vit. Pyth._, 7; Pseudo-Orig., Philos. ii.; Apollon. Dysc., _Mirab. Hist._, c. 46; Eudocia, p. 368; Suidas, _s. v._ Συμβ. Πυθαγ..; Eustath., _N._, p. 948. [96] For its meaning as a symbol, see Westropp, _Primitive Symbolism_, p. 28. [97] _R. Q._, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 29, 30, 31, 65, 86, 87, 105, 108. [98] The custom is also testified to by Serv. on Virg., _Ecl._, viii. 29; Isid., _Orig._, ix. 8; Plaut., _Cas._, IV. iv. 1; Catull., lxi. 159; Lucan, _Phars._, ii. 358. [99] _Ueber die römische Ehe_, p. 360.