Th. Mommsen, _History of Rome_, New Edition (London, 1894), i. 215 _sq._; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., p. 326; W. Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic_, p. 147. For another derivation of their name see below, p. 247. Footnote 771: See above, p. 207. Footnote 772: H. Vaughan Stevens, “Mitteilungen aus dem Frauenleben der Ôrang Belendas, der Ôrang Djâkun und der Ôrang Lâut,” bearbeitet von Dr. Max Bartels, _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, xxviii. (1896) pp. 168 _sq._ The writer adds that any person, boy, man, or woman (provided she was not menstruous) might light the fire, if it were more convenient that he or she should do so. Thus the co-operation of a married man and an unmarried girl, though apparently deemed the best, was not the only permissible way of igniting the wood. The good faith or at all events the accuracy of the late German traveller H. Vaughan Stevens is not, I understand, above suspicion; but Mr. Nelson Annandale, joint author of _Fasciculi Malayenses_, writes to me of him that “he certainly had a knowledge and experience of the wild tribes of the Malay region which few or none have excelled, for he lived literally as one of themselves.” Footnote 773: Prof. Vl. Titelbach, “Das heilige Feuer bei den Balkanslaven,” _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, xiii. (1900) pp. 2-4. The ceremony witnessed by Prof. Titelbach will be described later on in this work. Kinglake rode through the great Servian forest on his way from Belgrade to Constantinople, and from his description (_Eothen_, ch. ii.) we gather that it is chiefly composed of oak. He says: “Endless and endless now on either side the tall oaks closed in their ranks, and stood gloomily lowering over us.” Footnote 774: Ch. Gilhodes, “La Culture matérielle des Katchins (Birmanie),” _Anthropos_, v. (1910) p. 629. Footnote 775: M. Martin’s “Description of the Western Islands of Scotland,” in Pinkerton’s _Voyages and Travels_, iii. 611. The first edition of Martin’s work was published in 1703, and the second in 1716. Footnote 776: J. Grimm, _Deutsche Mythologie_, 4th ed., i. 504. Footnote 777: E. Casalis, _The Basutos_, pp. 267 _sq._ Footnote 778: Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Rom._ ii. 68; Valerius Maximus, i. 1. 7. Footnote 779: J. Lecœur, _Esquisses du Bocage Normand_, ii. (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1887) p. 27; B. Souché, _Croyances, présages et traditions diverses_ (Niort, 1880), p. 12. Footnote 780: