Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Ant. Rom._ ii. 66; Plutarch, _Numa_, 11 and 14; Solinus, i. 21; Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 263 _sqq._; _id._, _Tristia_, iii. 1. 29 _sq._; Tacitus, _Annals_, xv. 41. Footnote 662: Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ viii. 363. Festus, however, distinguishes the old royal palace (_Regia_) from the house of the King of the Sacred Rites (_s.v._ “Sacram viam,” pp. 290, 293, ed. C. O. Müller). In classical times the _Regia_ was the residence or office of the Pontifex Maximus; but we can hardly doubt that formerly it was the house of the _Rex Sacrorum_. See O. Gilbert, _Geschichte und Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum_, i. 225, 235 _sq._, 341, 344. As to the existing remains of the _Regia_, the temple of Vesta, and the house of the Vestals, see O. Richter, _Topographie der Stadt Rom_, 2nd Ed., pp. 88 _sqq._; Ch. Huelsen, _Die Ausgrabungen auf dem Forum Romanum_ 2nd Ed., (Rome, 1903), pp. 62 _sqq._, 88 _sqq._; Mrs. E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_ (London, 1904), pp. 26 _sqq._ Footnote 663: Dio Cassius, liv. 27, who tells us that Augustus annexed the house of the King of the Sacred Rites to the house of the Vestals, on which it abutted. Footnote 664: Many such phenomena are noted by Julius Obsequens in his book of prodigies, appended to W. Weissenborn’s edition of Livy, vol. x. 2, pp. 193 _sqq._ (Berlin, 1881). Footnote 665: W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, pp. 50-55; E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_, pp. 30, 152, 154. For pictures of these hut-urns see G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 191, fig. 52; _id._, in _Nuova Antologia_, August 1900, p. 22. Footnote 666: Valerius Maximus, iv. 4. 11; Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 310; Acron on Horace, _Odes_, i. 31, quoted by G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 179; Cicero, _Paradoxa_, i. 2; _id._, _De natura deorum_, iii. 17. 43; Persius, _Sat._ ii. 59 _sq._; Juvenal, _Sat._ vi. 342 _sqq._ Footnote 667: Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Ant. Rom._ ii. 23. On earthenware vessels used in religious rites see also Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxxv. 108, “_In sacris quidem etiam inter has opes hodie non murrinis crystallinisve, sed fictilibus prolibatur simpulis_”; Apuleius, _De magia_, 18, “_Eadem paupertas etiam populo Romano imperium a primordio fundavit, proque eo in hodiernum diis immortalibus simpuvio et catino fictili sacrificat._” Footnote 668: G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 179; E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_, pp. 23 _sq._, 41. Footnote 669: W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, pp. 82 _sqq._ Footnote 670: Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxxvii. 21 _sq._ Footnote 671: G. Henzen, _Acta Fratrum Arvalium_ (Berlin, 1874), pp. 26, 30; H. Dessau, _Inscriptiones Latinae selectae_, No. 5039; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., 456. Footnote 672: