Cp. Scholiast on Persius, 4. 28; and see under Compitalia, Jan. 3-5. Footnote 1316: Ovid, 1. 661. Footnote 1317: _R. R._ 1. 34; Plin. _N. H._ 18. 204. Footnote 1318: Cp. Varro, _R. R._ 1. 29, 36. Cp. the Rustic Calendars for February. Footnote 1319: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 26 ‘sationis causa’; and Lydus says that the feast could not be ‘stativae,’ because the ἀρχὴ σπόρου cannot be fixed to a day. Lydus’ reason is not a good one, if the sowing did not begin till Feb. 7; but it is plain that he understands the rites as _prophylactic_. I may note that Columella seems to know little about spring sowing (II. 2: cp. 2. 8). Mommsen, _R. H._ ii. 364, says that spring sowing was exceptional. Footnote 1320: See under Cerialia, April 19. Footnote 1321: Ad Virg. _Georg._ 2. 385; Marq. 200 and 192, where the old explanation (Macr. 1. 7. 34) seems to be adopted, that these were substitutes for human or other victims (cp. Bötticher, _Baumkultus_, 80 foll.). We have no clear evidence for this, and I am not disposed to accept it. Footnote 1322: 2. 42. So Plut. _Coriol._ 3. Footnote 1323: Momms. _C. I. L._ 1. 308; Jordan, _Eph. Ep._ 1. 236; Aust, _de Aedibus sacris_, 43. Footnote 1324: Dion. Hal. 6. 13; Liv. 2. 20. Footnote 1325: Suetonius, _Tib._ 20; Aust, op. cit. p. 6. Footnote 1326: Weight must, however, be given to the fact that the transvectio equitum took place on July 15. Aust, 43, and Furtwängler in _Lex._ s. v. Dioscuri. Footnote 1327: Middleton, _Ancient Rome_, p. 174; Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome_, p. 271 foll. Footnote 1328: Mommsen, _Münzwesen_, 301, 559. Footnote 1329: Pydna, Cic. _N. D._ 3. 5. II; Verona (101 B.C.), Plut. _Mar._ 26. The most famous application of the story is in the accounts of the great fight between Locri and Kroton at the river Sagra: this was probably the origin of the Italian legends. See Preller, ii. 301. Footnote 1330: Albert, _le Culte de Castor et Pollux en Italie_, 1883. Cp. Furtwängler, l. c. MENSIS FEBRUARIUS