Marq. 203; Dion. Hal. 4. 14; Ovid, _Fasti_, 2. 615 and 5. 140. Wissowa
(_Myth. Lex._ s. v. Lares, p. 1874) would limit them in origin to the
pagi outside the septem montes, as the latter had their own sacra.
Footnote 1237:
Dion. Hal. 4. 14 οὐ τοὺς ἐλευθέρους ἀλλὰ τοὺς δούλους ἔταξε (i. e.
Serv. Tull.) παρεῖναί τε καὶ συνιερουργεῖν, ὡς κεχαρισμένης τοῖς ἥρωσι
τῆς τῶν θεραπόντων ὑπηρεσίας (Cic. _pro Sestio_, 15. 34).
Footnote 1238:
Marq. 204; Rushforth, _Latin Historical Inscriptions_, p. 59 foll.
Footnote 1239:
Pliny, _N. H._ 36. 204; Macrob. 1. 7. 34; Dion. l. c.
Footnote 1240:
Asconius, p. 6, K. Sch. Livy, 34. 7. 2.
Footnote 1241:
So Wissowa, _de Feriis_, xii note. Cp. his article ‘Agonium’ in the
new edition of Pauly’s _Real-Encycl._
Footnote 1242:
p. 10. Cp. Ovid, _Fasti_, 1. 331 ‘Et pecus antiquus dicebat agonia
sermo.’
Footnote 1243:
He uses the plural: ‘Agonales (dies) per quos rex in regia arietem
immolat’ (_L. L._ 6. 12). But only Jan. 9 seems to be alluded to.
Footnote 1244:
_Fasti_, 1. 325; cf. Macrob. 1. 16. 5.
Footnote 1245:
_Civ. Dei_, 4. 11. 16. Ambrosch (_Studien_, 149) thinks it possible
that Agonius may have been a god of the Colline city.
Footnote 1246:
Bücheler, _Umbrica_, p. 30. B. apparently sees in the Umbrian ‘sakreu
perakneu’ an equivalent to ‘hostias agonales.’ The Iguvian ritual is
certainly the most likely document to be useful; it at least shows how
large was the store of sacrificial vocabulary.
Footnote 1247:
Fest. p. 10. For the Salii, Varro, _L. L._ 6. 14.
Footnote 1248:
Wissowa, _de Feriis_, xii.
Footnote 1249:
When Varro writes (_L. L._ 6. 12) that the dies agonales are those in
which the Rex sacrorum sacrifices a ram in the Regia, he may be
including all the four days, and not only Jan. 9. I think this is
likely; but we only know it of Jan. 9.
Footnote 1250:
_Fasti_, i. 333. Varro _L. L._ 6. 12 ‘Agonales (dies) per quos rex in
regia arietem immolat.’
Footnote 1251:
Cp. lines 318 and 333.
Footnote 1252:
Henzen, 144. An ‘agna’ is the only other animal sacrifice we know of
to Janus (Roscher, in _Lex._ 42).
Footnote 1253:
Roscher, in _Lex._ s. v. Ianus, 29 foll. (cp. for much interesting
kindred matter, De-Marchi, _Il Culto privato_, p. 20 foll.). Roscher’s
attempt to find an analogy between the Forum and the house is
interesting, but unluckily the positions ‘ad Forum’ of the ‘Ianus
geminus’ and the ‘aedes Vestae’ do not exactly answer to those of the
door and hearth of a Roman house.
Footnote 1254:
_Sat._ i. 9. 2; Procopius, _B. G._ 1. 25, who says that ‘Janus
belonged to the gods whom the Romans in their tongue called Penates,’
seems to be alluding to the same connexion of this god and the house.
Footnote 1255:
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