Festus, 254 ‘Quinquatrus appellari quidam putant a numero dierum qui fere his (? feriis iis) celebrantur: qui scilicet errant tam hercule quam qui triduo Saturnalia, et totidem diebus Compitalia; nam omnibus his singulis diebus fiunt sacra. Forma autem vocabuli eius exemplo multorum populorum Italicorum enuntiata est, quod post diem quintum Iduum est is dies festus, ut apud Tusculanos Triatrus,’ &c. Footnote 165: Wissowa, _op. cit._ viii. We find one in April, between the Fordicidia (April 15) and Cerialia (April 19). Footnote 166: Ovid, _Fasti_, 3. 809 ‘Una dies media est, et fiunt sacra Minervae,’ &c. Footnote 167: Ovid, _Fasti_, 3. 835 foll. Caelius ex alto qua mons descendit in aequum, Hic ubi non plana est sed prope plana via, Parva licet videas Captae delubra Minervae Quae dea natali coepit habere suo. As from the note in Praen. we learn that March 19 was also the dedication-day of Minerva on the Aventine, there must either be a confusion between the two, or both had the same foundation-day. About the day of Minerva Capta there is no doubt; for that of Minerva on the Aventine see Aust, _de Aedibus_, p. 42. Footnote 168: Preller, i. 342; Usener, _Rh. Mus._, xxx. 221; Roscher, _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Mars, 2410; _Lyd. de Mens._ 4. 42; Gell. 13. 23 (from _Gellii Annales_) is the _locus classicus_ for Nerio. Footnote 169: Nerio gen. Nerienis (Gell. l. c., who compares Anio Anienis). Footnote 170: Ovid, _Fasti_, 3. 850: ‘_forti_ sacrificare deae,’ though clearly meant to refer to Minerva, is thought to be a reminiscence of a characteristic of Nerio (‘the strong one’), attached to her supplanter. Footnote 171: Aul. Gell. l. c. Footnote 172: Usener, l. c., _passim_. Footnote 173: H. Jordan expressed a somewhat different view in his _Symbolae ad hist. Ital. religionum alterae_, p. 9. He thinks that ‘volgari opinione hominum feminini numinis cum masculo coniunctionem non potuisse non pro coniugali aestimari.’ But this would seem to imply that the _opinio volgaris_ was a mistaken one: and if so, how should it have arisen but under Greek influence? Footnote 174: Mommsen, in a note on the Feriale Cumanum (Hermes, 17. 637), calls them _weibliche Hilfsgöttinnen_; and this is not far removed from the view I have expressed in the text. The other alternative, viz that we have in these names traces of an old Italian anthropomorphic age, with a mythology, is in my view inadmissible. I see in them survivals of a mode of thought about the supernatural which might easily lend itself to a foreign anthropomorphizing influence. Footnote 175: Ovid, _Fasti_, 3. 835 foll. Footnote 176: Wissowa in _Lex._ s. v. Minerva 2986: a model article, to which the reader must be referred for further information about Minerva. Footnote 177: