This was the suggestion of Mr. Frazer in a note in the _Journal of Philology_, vol. xiv. p. 156. The late Prof. Nettleship once expressed this view to me. Footnote 443: Paulus, p. 15 ‘per Virgines Vestales’; Ovid, _Fasti_, 5. 621. Footnote 444: See below, p. 149. Footnote 445: Plut. _Quaest. Rom._ 86; Gell. 10. 15; Marq. 318. Her usual head-dress was the _flammeum_, or bride’s veil. No mention is made of the Flamen her husband; the prominence of women in all these rites is noticeable. Footnote 446: _Baumkultus_, 155, 411, 416. The cult of Adonis has some features like that of the Argei: e. g. the puppet, the immersion in water and the mourning (see _Lex._ s. v. Adonis, p. 73; Mannhardt, _A. W. F._ 276). Footnote 447: i. e. ‘old men must go over the bridge.’ See Cic. _pro Roscio Amerino_, 35, where the old edition of Osenbrüggen has a useful note. Also Varro, apud Lactant. _Inst._ 1. 21. 6. Ovid alludes to the proverb (5. 623 foll.) ‘Corpora post decies senos qui credidit annos Missa neci, sceleris crimine damnat avos.’ Footnote 448: Dionys. 1. 38. But he may have been deceived simply by the appearance of the bindings of the sheaves or bundles, especially if he had been told beforehand of the proverb. Footnote 449: The best known instances of human sacrifice at Rome are collected in a note to Merivale’s _History_ (vol. iii. 35); and by Sachse, _Die Argeer_, p. 17. O. Müller thought that it came to Rome from Etruria (_Etrusker_, ii. 20). For Greece, see Hermann, _Griech. Alt._ ii. sec. 27; Strabo. 10. 8. See also some valuable remarks in Tylor, _Prim. Cult._ ii. 362, on substitution in sacrifice. Footnote 450: Caesar, _B. G._ 6. 16; Tac. _Germ._ 9 and 39. Strabo, 10. 8, is interesting, as giving an example of the dropping out of the actual killing, while the form survived. See below on Lupercalia, p. 315. Footnote 451: A point suggested to me some years ago by Mr. A. J. Evans. Footnote 452: Sir A. Lyall (_Asiatic Studies_, p. 19) writes of human sacrifice as having been common in India as a last resort for appeasing divine wrath when manifested in some strange manner; i. e. it was never regular. So Procopius, _Bell. Goth._ 3. 13. Tacitus, indeed, writes of ‘certis diebus’ (_Germ._ 9), but it is not clear that he meant fixed recurring days. As a rule in human sacrifice and cannibalism the victims are captives, who would not be always at hand. Footnote 453: Dionysius (1. 38) speaks of sacrifice _before_ the immersion of the puppets: προθύσαντες ἱερὰ τὰ κατὰ τοὺς νόμους. Footnote 454: The βούλιμος and φαρμακός, Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ 129 foll. Footnote 455: _Germania_, 40: Mannhardt, _Baumkultus_, 567 foll. The evidence is perhaps hardly adequate as to detail. Footnote 456: _Baumkultus_, chapters 3, 4, and 5, which should be used by all who wish to form some idea of the amount of evidence collected on this one head.