W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, p. 87. Footnote 673: G. Wilmanns, _Exempla inscriptionum Latinarum_, Nos. 311, 986, 1326, 1331; H. Dessau, _Inscriptiones Latinae selectae_, Nos. 456, 3314, 4926, 4933, 4936, 4942, 4943. Modern writers, following Varro (_De lingua Latina_, vii. 44, “_fictores dicti a fingendis libis_”), explain these _fictores_ as bakers of sacred cakes. See Ch. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, pp. 1084 _sq._; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., 249. They may be right, but it is to be observed that Varro does not expressly refer to the _fictores_ of the Vestals and Pontiffs, and further, that in Latin _fictor_ commonly means a potter, not a baker, for which the regular word is _pistor_. Footnote 674: A. d’Orbigny, _Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale_, iii. (Paris and Strasburg, 1844) p. 194. Much of d’Orbigny’s valuable information as to this tribe was drawn from the manuscript of Father Lacueva, a Spanish Franciscan monk of wealthy family and saint-like character, who spent eighteen or twenty years among the Yuracares in a vain attempt to convert them. With regard to the crops mentioned in the text, these savages plant banana-trees, manioc, sugar-cane, and vegetables round about their huts, which they erect in clearings of the forest. See d’Orbigny, _op. cit._ iii. 196 _sq._ Footnote 675: H. A. Junod, “Les Conceptions physiologiques des Bantou Sud-Africains et leurs tabous,” _Revue d’Ethnographie et de Sociologie_, i. (1910), p. 147. Footnote 676: Columella, _De re rustica_, xii. 4. 2 _sq._ Footnote 677: Cicero, _De natura deorum_, ii. 27. 68. Footnote 678: Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ xi. 211. Footnote 679: Horace, _Epodes_, ii. 65 _sq._; Martial, iii. 58. 3 _sq._; L. Preller, _Römische Mythologie_, 3rd Ed., ii. 105 _sqq._, 155 _sqq._ See also A. De-Marchi, _Il Culto privato di Roma antica_, i. (Milan, 1896) p. 67, with plate iii. Footnote 680: Macrobius, _Saturn._ iii. 4. 11; G. Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_, pp. 145 _sq._ Footnote 681: Festus, _s.v._ “penus,” pp. 250, 251, ed. C. O. Müller; Tacitus, _Annals_, xv. 41; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., 252 _sq._ Footnote 682: Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Rom._ ii. 66; Livy, xxvi. 27. 14; J. Marquardt, _op. cit._ iii. 2nd Ed., 250 _sq._ CHAPTER XV THE FIRE-DRILL