Steuding in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Flora. There was a Sabine month Flusalis (Momms. _Chron._ 219) = Floralis, and answering to July. Varro considered Flora a Sabine deity (_L. L._ 5. 74). Footnote 335: Varro, _L. L._ 7. 45. Flora had an ancient temple _in colle_, near the so-called Capitolium vetus (Steuding, l. c.), i. e. in the ‘Sabine quarter.’ Footnote 336: Henzen, _Acta Fratr. Arv._ 146. Footnote 337: Ov. 5. 331 foll ‘Volt sua plebeio sacra patere choro.’ Footnote 338: Val. Max. 2. 10. 8. Steuding in _Myth. Lex._ has oddly misunderstood this passage, making Val. Max. write of this custom as an ancient one, whereas he clearly implies the opposite. It was no doubt the relic of some rude country practice, degenerated under the influence of city life. Footnote 339: Lactantius, _De falsa religione_, i. 20. Footnote 340: Aug. _Civ. Dei_, ii. 27. Footnote 341: Friedländer on Martial, 8. 67. 4. Footnote 342: H. Peter takes this to mean that they were let loose from a net and hunted into it again. See note ad loc. 5. 371. Footnote 343: See above, p. 77. Footnote 344: _Sat_. 5. 177: Vigila et cicer ingere large Rixanti populo, nostra ut Floralia possint Aprici meminisse senes.—Cp. Hor. _Sat._ 2. 3. 182. Footnote 345: Friedländer, _Sittengeschichte_, ii. 286; and his note on Martial, 8. 78. Footnote 346: _Kind. u. Korn._ 351 foll. Footnote 347: Another point that may strike the reader of Ovid is the wearing of parti-coloured dress on these days (5. 355: cp. Martial, 5. 23)— Cur tamen ut dantur vestes Cerialibus albae, Sic haec est cultu versicolore decens? Flora answers him doubtfully. Was this a practice of comparatively late date? See Friedländer, _Sittengeschichte_ ii. 275. Footnote 348: Mommsen in _C. I. L._ vi. p. 455 (Tabula fer. Lat.). The day was March 15 from B.C. 222 to 153; in earlier times it had been frequently changed. See Mommsen. _Chron._ p. 80 foll. Footnote 349: On this office and its connexion with the _feriae_ see Vigneaux, _Essai sur l’histoire de la praefectura urbis_, p. 37 foll. Footnote 350: Plin. _H. N._ 3. 69; Dionys. 4. 49. The difficult questions arising out of the numbers given by these authorities are discussed by Beloch, _Italischer Bund_, 178 foll., and Mommsen in _Hermes_, vol. xvii. 42 foll. Footnote 351: Aust, in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, p. 689. Footnote 352: _C. I. L._ vi. 2021. Footnote 353: Condensed from the account given by Aust, l. c. See also Preller-Jordan, i. 210 foll. The chief authority is Dionys. 4. 49. Footnote 354: e. g. Liv. 32. 1, 37. 3, in which cases some one city had not received its portion. The result was an _instauratio feriarum_. Footnote 355: