Seneca, _Q. N._ 2. 41; Müller-Deecke, _Etrusker_, ii. 83; Dennis, _Etruria_, i, Introduction lvi. The passage of Seneca is a very curious one about the Etruscan lightning-lore. O. Müller guesses that the _di involuti_ were Fates (_Schicksalsgottheiten_), which would suit Fortuna (cp. Hor. _Od._ 1. 35). Footnote 642: There is just a possibility that it was confused with a statue of Pudicitia, also _in foro boario_, and also said to have been veiled (Festus, 242). Varro, l. c., calls the goddess of the statue, Fortuna Virgo, and Preller suggested that she was identical with Pudicitia. The lines of Ovid seem to favour this view (_Fasti_, 6. 617 foll.): Veste data tegitur. Vetat hanc Fortuna moveri Et sic e templo est ipsa locuta suo; ‘Ore revelato qua primum luce patebit Servius, haec positi prima pudoris erit. Parcite, matronae, vetitas attingere vestes: Sollemni satis est voce movere preces.’ Footnote 643: Mommsen in _C. I. L._ i. 2, 298. Footnote 644: Livy, 9. 30; Val. Max. 2. 5. 4; Varro, _L. L._ 6. 17. Cp. _C. I. L._ vi. 3696 [Magistri] quinq(uennales) [collegi] teib(icinum) Rom(anorum) qui s(acris) p(ublicis) p(raesto) s(unt) Iov(i) Epul(oni) s(acrum). Footnote 645: So Preller, i. 198. Footnote 646: Aust, in _Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, 680. Both here and in his work _de Aedibus sacris_, this scholar declines to distinguish between Iup. Invictus and Iup. Victor. Footnote 647: For Minerva as the patron of all such guilds see Wissowa in _Lex._ s. v. Minerva, 2984 foll. Footnote 648: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 17. There were three days of revelry, according to Livy (9. 30): did they meet in this temple on each day? The 13th was the day of the _epulum_; which the other days were we do not know. Footnote 649: _L. L._ 6. 17. Footnote 650: Festus, 149, s. v. minusculae. Cf. Ovid, _Fasti_, 6. 695. Footnote 651: Livy, l. c. Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 55, who confuses two Appii Claudii, and refers the story to the Decemvir instead of to the Censor of 311 B.C. Livy omits the very Roman trait (Ov. 673 foll.) of the _libertus_ feigning to be surprised by his _patronus_. Footnote 652: Cohen, _Méd. Pl._ 33; Borghesi, _Op._ i. 201 (quoted by Marq. 577). Footnote 653: Müller-Deecke, _Etrusker_, ii. 202. Footnote 654: _Journal of Philology_, vol. xi. p. 189. It was a short pipe played with a reed, and no doubt almost the same thing as the short rough oboes which are still favourites in Italy, and which are still sometimes played two at a time in the mouth as of old. Their antiquity is vouched for by the law of the Twelve Tables, which limited the players at a funeral to ten. See Professor Anderson’s article ‘tibia’ in _Dict. of Ant._ (ed. 2). Footnote 655: _Fasti_, 6. 731. Footnote 656: Aust, _de Aedibus sacris_, p. 13. Footnote 657: