Roscher, _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Mars, 2427. Roscher regards the use of laurel in the Mars-cult as parallel with that in the Apollo-cult and not derived from it. The point is not however certain. The laurel was used as an ἀποτρόπαιον at the Robigalia, which seems closely connected with the Mars-cult (Plin. _N. H._ 18, 161); here it could hardly have been taken over from the worship of Apollo. Footnote 67: Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 254. Footnote 68: _Fasti_, 5. 253. There is a good parallel in Celtic mythology: the wife of Llew the Sun-hero was born of flowers (Rhys, _Celt. Myth._ 384). The myth is found in many parts of the world (_Lang_, ii. 22, and note). Footnote 69: By Usener, in his remarkable paper in _Rhein. Museum_, xxx. 215 foll., on ‘Italische Mythen.’ He unluckily made the mistake of supposing that Ovid told this story under June 1 (i. e. _nine months_ before the supposed birthday of Mars). There is indeed a kind of conjunction of June and Mars on June 1, as both had temples dedicated on that day; but neither of these can well be earlier than the fourth century B.C., and no one would have thought of them as having any bearing on the birth of Mars but for Usener’s blunder (Aust, _de Aedibus sacris Pop. Rom._ pp. 8 and 10, and his valuable note in Roscher’s article on Mars, p. 2390). Usener also adduces the derivation of Gradivus in Fest. 97 ‘quia gramine sit ortus.’ Footnote 70: The practical Roman mind applied the myth chiefly to the history of its _state_, and in such a way that its true mythic character was lost, or nearly so. What became in Greece mythic literature became quasi-history at Rome. Thus it is that Romulus is so closely connected with Mars in legend: the race-hero and the race-god have almost a mythical identity. The story of the she-wolf may be at least as much a myth of the birth of Mars as Ovid’s story of Juno, in spite of the fatherhood of Mars in that legend. Footnote 71: Aust, as quoted above. The date was probably 379 B.C. (Plin. _N. H._ 16. 235). Footnote 72: Roscher in _Lex._ s. v. Juno, p. 576. Footnote 73: Marq. 571, where is a list of passages referring to these gifts. Some are familiar, e. g. Horace, _Od._ 3. 8, and Juvenal, 9. 53 (with the scholiast in each case). Footnote 74: _Schol. Cruq._ on Horace, l. c., and the scholiast on Juvenal, l. c. Footnote 75: See e. g. the mysterious scene on a cista from Praeneste given in Roscher, _Lex._ 2407, to which the clue seems entirely lost. Footnote 76: _Lex._ s. v. Mars, 2399; s. v. Juno, 584. Footnote 77: Ovid, 3. 351 foll.; Plut. _Numa_, 13. Footnote 78: Dion. Hal. 2. 71. Footnote 79: Ovid, l. c. 381 foll. Footnote 80: Marq. 430, and note. Footnote 81: