Virgil, _Aen._ ii. 680-686. We may compare the halo with which the vainglorious and rascally artist of genius, Benvenuto Cellini, declared his head to be encircled. “Ever since the time of my strange vision until now,” says he, “an aureole of glory (marvellous to relate) has rested on my head. This is visible to every sort of men to whom I have chosen to point it out; but those have been very few. This halo can be observed above my shadow in the morning from the rising of the sun for about two hours, and far better when the grass is drenched with dew. It is also visible at evening about sunset. I became aware of it in France at Paris; for the air in those parts is so much freer from mist, that one can see it there far better manifested than in Italy, mists being far more frequent among us.” See _The Life of Benvenuto Cellini_, translated by J. Addington Symonds 3rd Ed., (London, 1889), pp. 279 _sq._ Footnote 648: See above, pp. 131 _sqq._ Footnote 649: A. B. Ellis, The _Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa_, p. 60. See above, pp. 149 _sq._ Footnote 650: See below, p. 229. Footnote 651: Apollodorus iii. 14. 6; Schol. on Homer, _Iliad_, ii. 547; J. Tzetzes, _Chiliades_, v. 669 _sq._; Augustine, _De civitate Dei_, xviii. 12. Footnote 652: Pausanias i. 26. 6 _sq._; Strabo ix. 1. 16, p. 396; Plutarch, _Numa_, 9; _id._, _Sulla_, 13. As to the identity of Erechtheus and Erichthonius see my note on Pausanias, i. 18. 2 (vol. ii. p. 169). Footnote 653: Pausanias, i. 27. 3, with my note. Footnote 654: The theory was formerly advocated by me (_Journal of Philology_, xiv. (1885) pp. 154 _sqq._) As to the duties of the Vestals see J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., pp. 342 _sqq._ Footnote 655: This explanation was first, so far as I know, given by me in my _Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship_ (London, 1905), p. 221. It has since been adopted by Mr. E. Fehrle (_Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum_, Giessen, 1910, pp. 210 _sqq._). Footnote 656: Aulus Gellius, xiv. 7. 7. Compare Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ vii. 153, ix. 4. Footnote 657: _Ovid_, Fasti, vi. 261 _sq._ Footnote 658: Festus, _s.v._ “penus,” p. 250, ed. C. O. Müller, where for _saepius_ we must obviously read _saeptus_. Footnote 659: Ovid, _Fasti_, i. 199, iii. 183 _sq._; Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Rom._ i. 79. 11. For the situation of the hut see also Plutarch, _Romulus_, 20. Footnote 660: Conon, _Narrationes_, 48; Vitruvius, ii. 1. 5, p. 35, ed. Rose and Müller-Strübing; Macrobius, _Saturn._ i. 15. 10. Compare Virgil, _Aen._ viii. 653 _sq._ As to the two huts on the Palatine and the Capitol see A. Schwegler, _Römische Geschichte_, i. 394; L. Jahn on Macrobius, _l.c._ Footnote 661: