So we may perhaps translate _quo sidere moto_: but Ovid certainly thought the star rose (cf. 904). Hartmann explains Ovid’s blunder by reference to Serv. _Georg._ 1. 218 (_Röm. Kal._ 193). See also H. Peter, ad loc. Footnote 321: Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ 107 foll. Footnote 322: Festus, 285; Paul, 45. It was outside the Porta Catularia, of which, unluckily, nothing is known. Footnote 323: _N. H._ 18. 14 ‘Ita est in commentariis pontificum: Augurio canario agendo dies constituantur priusquam frumenta vaginis exeant et antequam in vaginas perveniant.’ For ‘_et_ antequam’ we should perhaps read ‘_nec_ antequam.’ The _vagina_ is the sheath which protects the ear and from which it eventually protrudes; and it seems that in this stage, which in Italy would occur at the end of April or beginning of May, the corn is peculiarly liable to ‘rust.’ (So Virg. _Georg._ 1. 151 ‘Ut mala _culmos_ Esset robigo’: i. e. the stalks including the _vagina_.) See Hugh Macmillan, op. cit. p. 121. Footnote 324: _Myth. Forsch._ 106. Mr. Frazer (_G. B._ ii. 59: cp. i. 306) takes the other view of this and similar sacrifices, but with some hesitation. Footnote 325: It must be confessed that the occurrence of red colour in victims cannot well be always explained in this way; e. g. the red heifer of the Israelites (Numbers xix), and the red oxen of the Egyptians (Plut. _Isis and Osiris_, 31). But in this rite, occurring so close to the Cerialia, where, as we have seen, _foxes_ were turned out in the _circus maximus_, the colour of the puppies must have had some meaning in relation to the growing crops. Footnote 326: ‘Ludi cursoribus maioribus minoribusque.’ What these were is not known: Mommsen, _C. I. L._ 317. Footnote 327: Usener, _Religionsgeschichte_, i. 298 foll. Footnote 328: See Introduction, p. 15. Footnote 329: Plin. _N. H._ 18. 286; two years earlier, according to Velleius, 1. 14. This is, I think, the only case in which a deity taken in hand by the _decemviri sacris faciundis_ cannot be traced to a Greek origin; but the characteristics of Flora are so like those of Venus that in the former, as in the latter, Aphrodite may be concealed. The games as eventually organized had points in common with the cult of Aphrodite at Hierapolis (Lucian, _Dea Syr._ 49; Farnell, _Cults_, ii. 643); and it is worth noting that their date (173 B.C.) is subsequent to the Syrian war. Up to that time the games were not regular or annual (Ovid, _Fasti_, 5. 295). Footnote 330: Tac. _Ann._ 2. 49; Aust, p. 17. Footnote 331: Plebis ad aediles: Ovid, ib. v. 287; Festus, 238, probably in error, calls the Publicii _curule_ aediles. Footnote 332: Ovid, ib. 5.277 foll., in which he draws a picture of the misdoings of the landholders. Cp. Liv. 33. 42, for the temple of Faunus _in insula_, founded by the same means. Footnote 333: Ovid, ib. 5. 352. Footnote 334: