Serv. l. c. tells the aetiological legend. Cp. Plin. _N. H._ 7. 11. It has been dealt with fully by Mannhardt, _A. W. F._ 318 foll. Footnote 286: Plin. l. c.; Varro (ap. Serv. l. c.) asserted that they used a salve for their feet which protected them. The same thing is said, I believe, of the Harawara in India. Footnote 287: According to Strabo, p. 226, this fire-ceremony took place in the grove of Feronia, at the foot of the hill. Feronia may have been a corn- or harvest-deity, and of this Mannhardt makes all he can. We may at least guess that the rite took place at Midsummer. Footnote 288: Cp. the cult of Zeus Lykaios in Arcadia; Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, i. 41. Footnote 289: _Myth., Ritual, and Religion_, ii. 212. Footnote 290: This peculiar notation is common to this day and Aug. 19 (the Vinalia Rustica), and to the Feralia (Feb. 21). See Introduction, p. 10. Footnote 291: Ovid, _Fasti_, 4. 877, asks: ‘Cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, Quaeritis?‘ Footnote 292: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 16; Fest. 65 and 374. The latter gloss is: ‘Vinalia diem festum habebant, quo die vinum novum Iovi libabant.’ Ovid, _Fasti_, 4. 899, after telling the Mezentius story (alluded to in the note in Praen.), adds Dicta dies hinc est Vinalia: Iuppiter illam Vindicat, et festis gaudet inesse suis. Footnote 293: Ovid, _Fasti_, 4. 871 Templa frequentari Collinae proxima portae Nunc decet; a Siculo nomina colle tenent. He seems to have confused this temple with that on the Capitol (Aust, _de Aedibus_, 23). Footnote 294: Liv. 40. 34. 4. Footnote 295: Aust, ib. p. 24. Varro wrote a satire ‘Vinalia περὶ ἀφροδισίων.’ Plutarch (_Q. R._ 45) confuses Vinalia and Veneralia. Footnote 296: Festus, 264 and 265; in the Vallis Murcia (or Circus maximus), and the lucus Libitinae. (In 265, xiii Kal. Sept. should be xiv.) For the date of the former temple, 293 B.C., Liv. 10. 31. 9. Footnote 297: Varro, _R. R._ 1. 1; Fest. 265; Preller-Jordan, i. 441. Footnote 298: _C. I. L._ iv. 2776. Footnote 299: Varro, _L. L._ 6. 16. See _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, 704 foll. Footnote 300: Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 326. Vindemia is the _grape_-harvest. Hartmann, _Röm. Kal._ 138, differs from Mommsen on this point. Footnote 301: _Q. R._ 45. Footnote 302: Fest. 65. Footnote 303: _H. N._ 18. 287. Footnote 304: _L. L._ 6. 16. _Hortis_ is Mommsen’s very probable emendation for _sortis_ of the MSS. O. Müller has _sacris_, which is preferred by Jordan (Preller, i. 196). Footnote 305: 264. Footnote 306: