Numa: connexion with calendar, 4, 335-6; legends, 262-3, 278. Numbers: lucky and unlucky, 3. Oak of Jupiter Feretrius, 229, 232, 334. Oaths, 138-9, 142, 231, 297, 327; Jupiter’s connexion with, 139, 229-30, 326; taken at Ara Maxima, 138-9. Octaeteris cycle, 2-3. October, 2, 3; character, 236-7; festivals, 237-51. October-horse, 45, 58, 241-50; blood kept by Vestal Virgins, 83, 150, 243, 247; corn-spirit represented by, 83, 244-8; races, 45, 58, 242, 245-6; sacrifice of, 83, 241-2. Opalia, 255, 273-4. Opeconsivia, 115, 150, 189, 212-4, 290. Ops, 74, 338; connexion with Consus, 212-3; with Saturnus, 212, 273-4; Consiva, 212; festival, 115, 150, 212-4, 273-4; Opifera, 210; temple, 273-4. Oracles: Faunus, 262-3. Oscilla: _see_ Puppets. Ovid: Fasti, 6-7, 13, 14, 36-7, 173, 236-7. Paganalia, 16, 294-6, 335, 338. Pagus, 257, 294, 335; festivals, 16, 257, 294-6, 335, 338. Palatine: divisions, 266; Lupercal: _see_ Lupercal; mundus: _see_ Mundus; rites celebrated, 276, 310-2, 318-9; temples, 70, 180 (n. 4), 182; union with Subura, 247. Palatua, 267. Pales, 67, 80, 267; festival, 79-85; offerings, 81, 103. Pan: connexion with Faunus, 258, 259, 313. Parentalia, 210, 276, 299, 300, 306-10, 335. Parilia, 66, 79-85, 110, 243, 247; character, 66, 115, 150; share of Vestal Virgins in, 71, 83, 115. Penates, 337. Persephone, 75. Picumnus, 201. Pinarii, 193. Plebeians: festivals, 44, 50-1, 68, 70, 92, 163, 171, 253; quarter, 75, 77; secession, 53, 75-7; temples, 75-6, 92, 199. Pomona, 201. Pons sublicius, Argei thrown from, 112, 113-4. Pontifices, 114; decline, 342-3; growing importance, 339-41; influence on religion, 190-1, 192, 213, 214, 257-8, 341; Pontifex Maximus, 147, 288; priestesses, 105-6; share in festivals, 112, 114, 276. Poplifugia, 7, 15 (n. 1), 173, 174-6, 179, 183, 328. Porta: Agonensis, 281; Capena, 133, 232; Carmentalis, 180 (n. 3), 290, 291, 293; Fontinalis, 240; Sanqualis, 135, 140; Trigemina, 201. Portunalia, 189, 202-4. Portunus, 202-4, 214, Poseidon: connexion, with Neptunus, 185, 186, 187; Hippios, 208. Potitii, 193. Praeneste, 254; cult of Fortuna, 72, 124, 166, 168, 223-4, 254; cult of Jupiter Puer, 166, 224-7; foreign influence, 166, 227. Prayers, 81-2, 89-90, 126-7, 133, 155, 184, 191, 295, 308, 346. Presents given at festivals, 38, 272, 278. Priests: _see_ Pontifices. Primigenia: _see_ Fortuna. Proserpina, 212. Prostitutes, festival of, 93. Punic Wars, 19, 69-71, 179; institution of festivals and temples due to, 19, 69, 179, 341, 342. Puppets: Argei thrown into Tiber, 111-20; oscilla hung on trees, 96, 116, 296. Purification: _see_ Lustration. Pythagoreans, 110. Quinctilis: see July. Quinquatrus, 45, 57-62, 290; minusculae, 157-9.