Mommsen (_C. I. L._ 326) thinks that there is no mistake in the gloss; but that the Vinalia Rustica represent a later and luxurious fashion of allowing a whole year to elapse before tasting the wine, instead of six months. From the vintage, however (end of September or beginning of October), to August 19 is not a whole year. See under August 19. Footnote 307: ‘Tria namque tempora fructibus metuebant, propter quod instituerunt ferias diesque festos, Robigalia, Floralia, Vinalia.’ That the Vinalia here referred to is the August one is clear, not only from the order of the words, but from what follows, down to the end of sec. 289. Secs. 287 to end of 288 deal with the Vinalia priora _parenthetically_; in 289 Pliny returns to the Vinalia altera (or rustica), after thus clearing the ground by making it clear that the April Vinalia ‘nihil ad fructus attinent.’ He then quotes Varro to show that in August the object is to avert storms which might damage the vineyards. Mommsen, _C. I. L. 326_, seems to me to have misread this passage. Footnote 308: Ovid, _Fasti_, 877 foll.: the legend was an old one for it is quoted by Macrob. (_Sat._ 3. 5. 10) from Cato’s _Origines_. See also Hehn, _Kulturpflanzen_, 65 foll., who is, however, in error as to the identification of Jupiter (Liber) with Ζεὶς Ἐλευθέριος. Footnote 309: See Columella, 2. 12; Plin. _N. II._ 18. 91; and article, ‘Mildew,’ in _Encycl. Brit._ For the botanical character of this parasite see Worthington Smith’s _Diseases of Field and Garden Crops_, chs. 21 and 23; and Hugh Macmillan’s _Bible Teachings from Nature_, p. 120 foll. Footnote 310: _N. H._ 18. 273: cp. 154. Pliny thought it chiefly the result of _dew_ (cf. mil_dew_, German mehl_thau_), and was not wholly wrong. Footnote 311: The masc. is no doubt correct. Ovid, _Fasti_, 4. 907, uses the feminine Robigo, but is alone among the older writers in doing so: see Preller-Jordan, ii. 44, note 2. Footnote 312: Indigitation is the fixing of the _local action_ of a god to be invoked, by means of his name, if I understand rightly Reifferscheid’s view as given by R. Peter in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Indigitamenta, p. 137. The priest of the Robigalia was the flamen Quirinalis: Quirinus is one form of Mars. Footnote 313: _de Spectaculis_, 5. Footnote 314: Cato, _R. R._ 141; Preller-Jordan, i. 340. Footnote 315: Strabo, 613: see Roscher, _Apollo and Mars_, p. 62. Ἐρυσίβη = mildew, of which ἐρυθίβη is the Rhodian form. Footnote 316: See Mommsen’s ingenious explanation in _C. I. L._ 316. Footnote 317: _Fasti_, 4. 901 foll. The victims had been slain at Rome and in the morning; and were offered at the grove later in the day (see Marq. 184). Footnote 318: Villis mantele solutis (cp. Serv. _Aen._ 12. 169). Footnote 319: _R. R._ 141. Footnote 320: