Ov. l. c. 545 foll. Sil. Ital. 8. 50 foll. Ovid also says that some thought she was the moon, ‘quia mensibus impleat annum’ (3. 657): but this notion has no value, except as indicating the belief that she represented the circle of the year. Footnote 133: _Aeneas und die Penaten_, ii. 717 foll. The cautious Merkel long ago repudiated such fancies; preface to Ovid’s _Fasti_, p. 177. Footnote 134: Liv. 1. 2. The Punic Anna is now thought to be a deity = Dido = Elissa: see Rossbach in the new edition of Pauly’s _Encyl._ i. 2223. Footnote 135: Her grove was not even on the Tiber-bank, but somewhere between the Via Flaminia and the Via Salaria, i.e. in the neighbourhood of the Villa Borghese: as we see from the obscure lines of Martial, 4. 64. 17 (he is looking from the Janiculum): Et quod virgineo cruore gaudet Annae pomiferum nemus Perennae. Illinc Flaminiae Salariaeque Gestator patet essedo tacente, &c. There is no explanation of _virgineo cruore_: but I would rather retain it than adopt even H. A. J. Munro’s _virgine nequiore_. See Friedländer, ad loc. Footnote 136: This seems to be Usener’s suggestion, p. 207. Footnote 137: _Fasti_, 3. 675. Footnote 138: No doubt this should be Nerio: see below on March 17. Footnote 139: There is some ground for believing that the two words implied two deities on occasion or originally: Varro, _Sat. Menipp._ fr. 506 ‘Te Anna ac Peranna’ (Riese, p. 219). Footnote 140: Wissowa (_de Feriis_ x) thinks Ovid’s tale mere _nugae_: but this learned scholar never seems to be able to comprehend the significance of folk-lore. Footnote 141: _Fasti_, 3 661 foll. Footnote 142: Varro (_L. L._ 6. 14) calls them ‘sacerdotes Liberi,’ by courtesy, we may presume: and it is noticeable that Ovid describes this old Anna as wearing a _mitra_, which, in Propert. v. (iv.) 2. 31, is characteristic of Bacchus: ‘Cinge caput mitra: speciem furabor Iacchi.’ Footnote 143: Op. cit. 208. Footnote 144: See Pauly, _Encycl._ vol. i. 2223. This is Wissowa’s opinion. Footnote 145: See on Jan. 9. Footnote 146: Cic. _ad Fam._ 12. 25. 1; _Att._ 9. 9. 4; _Auct. Bell. Hisp._ 31. Footnote 147: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 14 ‘In libris Saliorum, quorum cognomen Agonensium, forsitan his dies ideo appellatur potius Agonia.’ So Masurius Sabinus (in Macrob. _Sat._ 1. 4. 15), ‘Liberalium dies a pontificibus agonium Martiale appellatur.’ Footnote 148: See above, p. 53, where I have expressed a doubt whether this custom originally belonged to the Liberalia. It is alluded to in Ovid, _Fasti_, 3. 725 foll., and Varro, _L. L._ 6. 14. Footnote 149: This is the view of Wissowa in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Liber, 2022. Cp. Aust, _Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, 662. Footnote 150: