_L. L._ 6. 20. The passage in 6. 16, quoted above, ends thus: ‘In Tusculanis hortis (sortis in MS.) est scriptum: Vinum novum ne vehatur in urbem antequam Vinalia calentur,’ which may refer to a notice put up in the vineyards. Another reading is ‘sacris.’ Footnote 877: _C. I. L._ 316 and 326; Varro, _R. R._ 1. 65. Footnote 878: Cf. Pliny, _N. H._ 18. 284. ‘Tria namque tempora fructibus metuebant, propter quod instituerunt ferias diesque festos, Robigalia, Floralia, Vinalia.’ I do not see why the Vinalia here should not be the Vinalia Rustica. Cp. Virg. _Georg._ 2. 419 ‘Et iam maturis metuendus Iuppiter uvis.’ Hartmann, _Röm. Kal._ 137 foll. Footnote 879: Vol. ii. 379. Footnote 880: B.C. 272 (Festus, 209; Aust, p. 14). Footnote 881: For this altar, Tertull. _Spect._ 5 and 8; Dionys. 1. 33; Tac. _Ann._ 12. 24; Serv. _Aen._ 8. 636. Footnote 882: No correction of this word seems satisfactory: see Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 326. Footnote 883: Wissowa, _Lex._ s. v. Consus, 926. Footnote 884: Suggested by Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 326, and accepted by Wissowa. Unluckily Columella (r. 6), in alluding to the practice, says nothing of its occurrence in Italy. The alternative explanation was suggested to me by Robertson Smith (_Religion of the Semites_, 107): see also a note in Müller-Deecke, _Etrusker_, ii. 100; and below on Terminalia (p. 325). Footnote 885: The underground altar of Dis Pater in the Campus Martius, at which the ludi saeculares were in part celebrated (Zosimus, 2. 1), may have had a like origin. Footnote 886: _Qu. Rom._ 40: cf. Dionys. 1. 33. Footnote 887: Fast. Praen.; _C. I. L._ 237. Footnote 888: 2. 31, where he says that they were kept up in his own day: cf. Strabo, Bk. 5.3. 2. Footnote 889: p. 148. Footnote 890: Friedländer in Marq. 482. For the connexion of games with harvest see Mannhardt. _Myth. Forsch._ 172 foll. Footnote 891: Varro (ap. Non. p. 13) quotes an old verse which seems to the point here: ‘Sibi pastores ludo faciunt coriis consualia.’ Footnote 892: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 20; Serv. _Aen._ 8. 636; Dionys. 2. 31; Cic. _Rep._ 2. 12. Footnote 893: See above, p. 178. Footnote 894: Vol. ii. 171 foll., 372 foll. Footnote 895: _de Spect._ 8. Footnote 896: See above, p. 89; Ovid, _Fasti_, 4. 908. Footnote 897: Festus, p. 210, s. v. piscatorii ludi (Varro, _L. L._ 6 20). The latter uses the word ‘animalia,’ and does not mention fish. The fish were apparently sacrificed at the domestic hearth; but it is doubtful whether Volcanus was ever a deity of the hearth-fire (see Schwegler, _R. G._ i. 714; Wissowa, _de Feriis_, xlv). Footnote 898: See below, p. 309; Ovid, _Fasti_, 2. 571 foll. Footnote 899: See above on May 23, p. 123; Varro, _L. L._ 5. 84; Macrob. 1. 12. 18; _C. I. L._ vi. 1628. Footnote 900: ii. 149. Footnote 901: