Paulus, 23; Quintil. 1. 7. 12; Varro, _L. L._ 5. 52 (from the ‘sacra
Argeorum’), if we read ‘adversum Solis pulvinar cis aedem Salutis.’
The name is said to be connected with the Umbrian and Etruscan god of
light, Usil, a word thought to be recognizable in Aurelius (=
Auselius, Varro, l. c.), and in the Ozeul of the Salian hymn
(Wordsworth, _Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_, p. 564 foll.).
Footnote 801:
So e. g. Virgil, _Georg._ 1. 498 ‘Di patrii indigites et Romule
Vestaque Mater.’ Peter, in _Lex._ s. v. Indigitamenta, 132.
Footnote 802:
i. 325.
Footnote 803:
_Lex._ s. v. Indigitamenta, 137.
Footnote 804:
Wissowa, _de Romanorum Indigetibus et Novensidibus_ (Marburg, 1892).
Footnote 805:
Merkel, _Praef. in Ov. Fastos_, cxxxv; Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 324.
Footnote 806:
_Lex._ s. v. Hercules, 2903 foll., where R. Peter has summarized and
criticized all the various opinions.
Footnote 807:
Liv. I. 7.
Footnote 808:
Dionys. I. 40, who says that the duties were performed by slaves in
his day. See _Lex._ 2925 for a long list of conjectures about this
part of the legend. The Potitii never occur in inscriptions; and I
think with Jordan (Preller, ii. 291) that the name is imaginary,
invented to account for the functions of the slaves.
Footnote 809:
_C. I. L._ vi. 312-319, found on the site of the _aedes_.
Footnote 810:
Macrob. 3. 12. 2; Varro, _L. L._ 6. 15. The uncovered head also occurs
in the cult of Saturnus; and R. Peter argues that the custom may after
all be old-Italian (_Lex._ 2928).
Footnote 811:
Marquardt, _Privatalterthümer_, vol. i, p. 291.
Footnote 812:
See above, p. 142 foll. Plut. _Qu. Rom._ 60; Macrob. 1. 12. 38. In _Q.
R._ 90 Plutarch notes that no other god might be mentioned at the
sacrifice, and no dog might be admitted.
Footnote 813:
_de Re Rustica_, 83.
Footnote 814:
The word was _profanatum_, opposed to _polluctum_ (see Marq. 149).
Footnote 815:
_Aen._ 8. 281 foll.
Footnote 816:
Salii are found in the cult of Hercules also at Tibur: Macrob. 3. 12.
7. See a note of Jordan in Preller, i. 352.
Footnote 817:
_Lex._ 2931 foll.; _C. I. L._ i. 149 foll.
Footnote 818:
The examples are collected by R. Peter in _Lex._ 2935.
Footnote 819:
Festus, 253, s. v. pollucere merces; Plut. _Qu. Rom._ 18; _Vita
Sullae_, 35; _Crassi_, 2; _Lex._ 2032 foll.
Footnote 820:
Marq. 469; Festus, p. 318, s. v. sacrima.
Footnote 821:
Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, p. 233.
Footnote 822:
_G. B._ ii. 373 foll.
Footnote 823:
In the legend Hercules gave a tenth part of his booty to the
inhabitants of the place (Dionys 1. 40).
Footnote 824:
See Mommsen in _C. I. L._ i. 150.
Footnote 825:
e. g. in Bréal, _Hercule et Cacus_.
Footnote 826:
See _Lex._ 2286 (R. Peter, quoting Reifferscheid).
Footnote 827:
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