We learn from Varro[1095] that the place of _lustratio_ on this day was the Aventine ‘ad circum maximum.’ I can find no explanation of this: we know of no Mars-altar in that part of Rome, which was the seat of the cults of Hercules and Consus. It was probably the last point in a procession of the Salii[1096]. Footnote 1024: _C. I. L._ i 2. 281. Footnote 1025: Varro, _R. R._ 1. 34. Pliny, _N. H._ 18. 315: ‘Vindemiam antiqui nunquam existimavere maturam ante aequinoctium, iam passim rapi cerno.’ Sec. 319 ‘Iustum vindemiae tempus ab aequinoctio ad Vergiliarum occasum dies xliii.’ Footnote 1026: See above, p. 97. Footnote 1027: Pliny, _N. H._ 14. 88 ‘Vino rogum ne respargito.’ Cp. 18. 24. Footnote 1028: _Kulturpflanzen_, &c., p. 65. Footnote 1029: 1. 21. Dion. Hal. 2. 75. The significance of this covered vehicle seems to be unknown. Footnote 1030: Many passages might be collected to bear out Dionysius’ remarks: the reader may refer to Preller, i. 250 foll. Footnote 1031: Pliny, _N. H._ xi. 250. So ‘dextram fidemque dare.’ Footnote 1032: Wissowa, in _Lex._ s. v. Fides, Preller. i. 251. Serv. _Aen._ 1. 292 and 8. 636: but Serv. in the latter note says ‘Quia fides tecta esse debet et velata.’ Footnote 1033: Libanius, _Decl._ 19; Photius, s. v. κροκοῦν (Bötticher, _Baumkultus_, p. 43) οἱ μύσται ὡς φασὶ κρόκῃ τὴν δεξιὰν χεῖρα καὶ τὸν πόδα ἀναδοῦνται. Footnote 1034: Hor. _Od._ 1. 35. 21. Footnote 1035: The authorities for this and the altars connected with it are Livy, 1. 26; Dion. Hal. 3. 22; Festus, 297 and Paul. 307; Aur. Vict. 4. 9; _Schol. Bob. ad Cic._ p. 277 Orelli; Lydus _de Mensibus_, 4. 1. Footnote 1036: Kiepert u. Huelsen, _Formae urbis Romae antiquae_, p. 92 and map 1; Jordan, _Topogr._ ii. 100. Footnote 1037: So Roscher, in _Lex._ s. v. Ianus, 21; Gilbert, _Topogr._ 1. 180, who would make it the ‘porta Ianualis’ of Macrob. 1. 19. 17, wrongly. Footnote 1038: It is always in the singular, e. g. ‘Transmisso per viam tigillo,’ Livy, l. c. Dionys. writes as if it were originally a _iugum_, i. e. two uprights and a cross-beam, but does not imply that it was so in his day. Footnote 1039: The altars are mentioned by Festus, Dionys, and _Schol. Bob._ Footnote 1040: _Lex._ s. v. Janus, 21; quoting Grimm, _Deutsche Myth._ (E. T. 1157, with quotation from White’s _Selborne_). Footnote 1041: Marquardt, 584. Footnote 1042: Macrob. 1. 9. 16 ‘[Ianum] Iunonium quia non solum mensis Ianuarii sed mensium omnium ingressum tenentem: in dicione autem Iunonis sunt omnes Kalendae.’ Footnote 1043: This Juno may be the ‘Weibliche Genius einer Frau,’ as Roscher suggests (s. v. Janus, 22; s. v. Juno. 598, he seems to think otherwise). But as she is connected with Janus, I should doubt it. For an explanation of ‘Ianus Curiatius’ cp. Lydus, l. c. ἔφορος εὐγενῶν. Footnote 1044: Curriti Arv.: Q[uiriti] Paul. Footnote 1045: p. 223.