For Iup. Maius see Aust, in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, p. 650. Footnote 367: This was probably not the early historian Cincius Alimentus, but a contemporary of Augustus, Teuffel, _Hist. of Roman Literature_, sec. 106. For the flamen Volcanalis see on Aug 23. Footnote 368: i. e. on the Ides: see below, p. 120. The connexion between Mercurius and Maia seems to arise simply from the fact that the dedication of the temple of the former was on the Ides of this month. Footnote 369: Ovid, _Fasti_, 6. 59 foll.; Mommsen, _Chron._ 218. Footnote 370: The etymology was defended by Roscher in Fleckeisen’s _Jahrbuch_ for 1875, and in his _Iuno und Hera_, p. 105. Footnote 371: _Fasti_, 5. 129 foll. For the doubtful reading _Curibus_ in 131 see Peter, ad loc.; Preller-Jordan, ii. 114. Footnote 372: _Fasti_, 5. 143; Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 51. Footnote 373: This appears on coins of the gens Caesia: Cohen, _Méd. Cons._ pl. viii. Wissowa, in _Myth. Lex._, s. v. Lares, gives a cut of the coin, on which the Lares are represented sitting with a dog between them. See note at the end of this work (Note B) on the further interpretation of these coins. Footnote 374: See Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, 414 foll. Footnote 375: Farnell, _Cults_, ii. 515. Hekate was certainly a deity of the earth. Cf. Plut. _Q. R._ 68. Footnote 376: See on Robigalia, April 25. Footnote 377: _Quaest. Rom._ 52 and 111; cf. _Romulus_ 21. Footnote 378: So Jevons, _Roman Questions_, Introduction, xli. Footnote 379: De-Marchi, _La Religione nella vita domestica_, 48. Wissowa (_Myth. Lex._, s. v. Lares, p. 1872) prefers the old interpretation, much as Plutarch gives it. Footnote 380: _Fasti_, 5. 149 foll. Footnote 381: Aust, _De Aedibus sacris_, p. 27. It was apparently before 123 B.C., when a Vestal Virgin, Licinia, added an _aedicula_, _pulvinar_, and _ara_ to it (Cic. _de Domo_, 136). Footnote 382: Wissowa, in Pauly’s _Real-Encyclopädie_, s. v. Bona Dea, 690. See above, p. 69. Footnote 383: See below, under Dec. 3. There can be hardly a doubt that this December rite was the one famous for the _sacrilegium_ of Clodius in 62 B.C., though Prof. Beesly rashly assumed the contrary in his essay on Clodius (_Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius_, p. 45 note). Plutarch, _Cic._ 19 and 20; Dio Cass. 37. 35. Footnote 384: Ovid, l. c. ‘oculos exosa viriles.’ Cp. _Ars Amat._ 3. 637. On this and other points in the cult see R. Peter in _Myth. Lex._, and Wissowa, l. c. The latter seems to refer most of them to the December rite; but Ovid and Macrobius expressly connect them with the _temple_. Macr. 1. 12. 25 foll. Footnote 385: Propert. 4. 9; Macr. 1. 12. 28. Footnote 386: Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii. 245 foll. Footnote 387: See below, p. 143. _Lex. Myth._ s. v. Hercules, 2258. Footnote 388: Macr. l. c. Plutarch also knew of this (_Quaest. Rom._ 20).