[Footnote 458: Thus Ovid describes the rites performed by the Flamen Quirinalis at the old agricultural festival of the Robigalia (Robigus, deity of the mildew) as if it were a curious bit of old practice which most people knew nothing about.--_Fasti_, iv. 901 foll.] [Footnote 459: Greenidge, _Legal Procedure in Cicero's time_, p. 457.] [Footnote 460: It is the same word as our _fair_.] [Footnote 461: _Fasti_, iii. 523 foll.; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 51.] [Footnote 462: _Roman Festivals_, p. 185. The custom doubtless had a religious origin.] [Footnote 463: _Ib_. p. 268. Augustus limited the days to three.] [Footnote 464: Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus_, p. 170. The cult of Saturn was largely affected by Greek usage, but this particular custom was more likely descended from the usage of the Latin farm.] [Footnote 465: See above, p. 172. Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 586; Frazer, _Golden Bough_ (ed. 2), vol. iii. p. 188 foll.] [Footnote 466: Cic. _Verr_. I. 10. 31; where Cicero complains of the difficulties he experienced in conducting his case in consequence of the number of ludi from August to November in that year.] [Footnote 467: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 217 foll.] [Footnote 468: See the account in Dion. Hal. vii. 72, taken from Fabius Pictor.] [Footnote 469: See Friedländer in Marquardt, _Staatsverwaltung_, iii. p. 508, note 3.] [Footnote 470: For full accounts of this procession, and the whole question of the Ludi Romani, see Friedländer, _l.c._; Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus_, p. 383 foll.; or the article "Triumphus" in the _Dict. of Antiquities_, ed. 2. All accounts owe much to Mommsen's essay in _Römische Forschungen_, ii. p. 42 foll.] [Footnote 471: On the parallelism between the Ludi Plebeii and Romani see Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, ii. p. 508, note 4.] [Footnote 472: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 179 foll.] [Footnote 473: _Ib_. p. 69.] [Footnote 474: _Ib_. p. 72 foll.] [Footnote 475: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 91 foll.] [Footnote 476: Livy xxii. 10.7; Dionys. vii. 71.] [Footnote 477: Pliny, N.S. xxxiii. 138. The same thing happened once or twice under Augustus.] [Footnote 478: Livy xl. 44.] [Footnote 479: ii. 16, 57 foll.] [Footnote 480: We have some details of the ridiculously lavish expenditure of this aedile in Pliny, N.H. xxxvi. 114. He built a temporary theatre, which was decorated as though it were to be a permanent monument of magnificence.] [Footnote 481: Verr. v. 14. 36.] [Footnote 482: Plut. Caes. 5.] [Footnote 483: Cio. _ad Fam_. viii. 9.] [Footnote 484: _ad Att_. vi. I. 21.] [Footnote 485: There is no evidence that slaves were admitted under the Republic. Columella, who wrote under Nero, is the first to mention their presence at the games (_R.R._ i. 8. 2), unless we consider the vilicus of Horace, _Epist_. i. 14. 15, as a slave. See Friedländer in Marq. p. 491, note 4.] [Footnote 486: See above, p. 13; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 208.] [Footnote 487: _Roman Festivals_, p. 241.]