[257] See further, Flinders Petrie, _Stud. Hist._ III. 69 (1904), and for festivals generally the same author’s _Egyptian Festivals_ ... (1908). [258] _Schol. in Luc. Dialog. Meretr._ VII. 4 (ed. Rabe, 1906), referred to by Harrison, _op. cit._ p. 146; see also Lübker, _op. cit._ 298 _b_. [259] Mommsen, _Feste_ ..., pp. 359 ff.; Harpocration, _s.v._ Ἁλῷα, I. 24 (ed. Dindorf [1853]). For Vintage Festivals see, further, Mommsen, _Heortologie_, pp. 66 ff. [260] Harrison, _op. cit._ pp. 146 f. On this festival see also Bekker, _op. cit._ I. 384 f.; Farnell, _Cults_ ..., III. 315 f.; Frazer, _GB_, _The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, I. 60 ff. [261] The author refers to his note on Pausanias, VIII. xxxvii. 3 in vol. IV. pp. 375 ff. of his _Pausanias_. [262] _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, II. 339. [263] Gruppe, _op. cit._ II. 783; Preller, _Griechische Mythologie_, pp. 618 ff. (1872). [264] Cp. Pausan. VIII. xxv. 1 ff.; Ovid, _Metam._ V. 106; Pliny, XVI. 33; and for the _Charites_ see Gruppe, _op. cit._ I. 81, II. 1073, 1083, 1189, 1284; Lobeck, _op. cit._ II. 1085 ff.; _Julii Pol. Onom._ IV. 95. For the Thesmophoria see Frazer, _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn_ ..., II. 16 ff.; Farnell, _Cults_ ..., III. 85-93; and for the Thargelia, _GB_, _The Scapegoat_, pp. 254 ff.; Farnell, _Cults_ ..., IV. 268 ff. [265] _E.g._ in the cult of Ἄρτεμις Κορδάκα, see Lobeck, _De myst. priv._ II. 959; Farnell, _Cults_ ..., II. 445; Pausan. VI. xxii. 1. The procession called φαλλοφορία was especially associated with Dionysos and Hermes, see Farnell in _ERE_, VI. 417 _a_. [266] See Farnell in _ERE_, VI. 403 _b_; he says: “this privilege of ecstasy might be used for the practical purposes of vegetation-magic.” [267] Mars was originally a god of vegetation; he appears subsequently as the god of war. [268] See Aust, _Die Religion der Römer_, p. 171 (1899). [269] A translation in full is given by Carter in _ERE_, II. 10 _b_, 11 _a_. [270] See further on the whole subject Pauly-Wissowa, _Realencycl. der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft_, II. 1463 ff. (1896). [271] See Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, III. 444 (1885). [272] Cp. the name of the month in which the festival was held, February, which gets its name from _februare_ “to purify.” [273] March 19 was a special day as being the birthday of Minerva (Ovid, _Fasti_, III. 812; see Mommsen, _Feste_ ..., p. 59). [274] “... per urbem ire canentes carmina cum tripudiis solemnique saltatu,” Liv. I. 20. 4. See, further, Wissowa, _op. cit._ I. 482, who refers to Dion. Hal. II. 70. 2. Cp. de la Saussaye, _op. cit._ II. 441 ff.; and see Seneca, _Epp._ XV.; Quintilian, I. 2. 18. [275] _GB_, _The Scapegoat_, p. 232.