Antistius Labeo, ap. Festum, 348: ‘Septimontio, ut ait Antistius
Labeo, hisce montibus feriae. Palatio, cui sacrificium quod fit
Palatuar dicitur. Veliae, cui item sacrificium, Fagutali, Suburae,
Cermalo, Oppio, Cispio monti.’ Before ‘Cispio’ the MS. has ‘Caelio
monti,’ which must be a copyist’s blunder. The Subura is by courtesy a
_mons_; also a _pagus_ (Festus, 309), a _regio_ (ib.), and a _tribus_
(ib.).
Footnote 1161:
_Staatsrecht_, iii. 112. O. Gilbert has made a great to-do about the
development of these communities; _Gesch. u. Topogr._ i. 39 foll. But
where else will he find three distinct settlements in a space as small
as that of the Palatine? The discoveries at Falerii and Narce would
have saved him the labour of much web-spinning. Plutarch, _Q. R._ 69,
has (accidentally perhaps) expressed the matter rightly.
Footnote 1162:
_Monumenti Antichi_, vol. v. p. 15 foll.
Footnote 1163:
_Mon. Ant._ p. 110 foll. (Barnabei).
Footnote 1164:
Cic. _de Domo_, 28. 74.
Footnote 1165:
At Ariminum, and Antioch in Pisidia (Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, iii. 113,
note).
Footnote 1166:
Festus, 348, cp. 245.
Footnote 1167:
Preller, i. 414.
Footnote 1168:
_Q. R._ 69. Plutarch does not say in what parts of the city the
vehicles were forbidden. The feast existed in his day, and indeed long
afterwards (Tertull. _Idololatr._ 10). It seems to have become a
general feast of the whole people.
Footnote 1169:
Macrob. i. 10. 2.
Footnote 1170:
See below on Saturnalia, p. 271.
Footnote 1171:
Macrob. 1. 10. 2. Macr. tells us that after the change some people in
error held the festival on the 19th, i. e. on the day which was now
xiv K. Ian.
Footnote 1172:
Hartmann, _Der Röm. Kalender_, p. 203 foll., thinks it was originally
one of the _feriae conceptivae_, like the Compitalia, Paganalia, &c.,
and only became fixed (_stativae_) when it was reorganized in 217 B.C.
But if so, why is it marked in the calendars in large letters? And
Hartmann himself points out (p. 208) that Dec. 17 is the first day of
Capricornus, i. e. the coldest season, which in the oldest natural
reckoning would be likely to fix the day (Colum. 11. 2. 94).
Footnote 1173:
Macr. l. c.; Cic. _Att._ 13. 52.
Footnote 1174:
Mommsen, _C. I. L._ i. 337.
Footnote 1175:
Frazer, _Golden Bough_, ii. 172; Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, ch. 13;
Usener, _Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen_, 1. 214 foll. See for
Italy, _Academy_, Jan. 20, 1888.
Footnote 1176:
_C. I. L._ i. 48. But Prof. Gardner tells me that the reading Saet. is
not certain.
Footnote 1177:
Macrob. 1. 10. 19 foll.; 1. 7. 24 and 25; Marq. p. 11 note 3. The
conjunction of Ops with him in this function is rejected (rightly, I
think) by Wissowa, _de Feriis_, iv. But see below on Opalia.
Footnote 1178:
Jordan’s note on Preller, ii. 10.
Footnote 1179:
e. g. Virg. _Aen._ 8. 321.
Footnote 1180:
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