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The lectures trace the evolution of Roman religious practice from its quasi-magical beginnings through household and agricultural cults to the formal, highly ritualized worship of the city-state, and finally to changes experienced by the age of Augustus. Topics include survivals of taboo and magic, the religion of the family and the household deities, the calendrical framework attributed to Numa, the concept of numina and the gradual personification of deities, priesthoods and sacred places, ritual, festivals, temples, and the tension between technical ritualism and popular religious instincts. The work combines archaeological and comparative evidence to explain how ritual and social institutions shaped religious change.

1010 For the taboo on such spoils, and their destruction, see M. S. Reinach's interesting paper "Tarpeia," in Cultes, mythes, et religions, iii. 221 foll.


APPENDIX IV

(Lecture VIII., page 169 foll.) Ius and Fas

In historical times the two kinds of ius, divinum and humanum, were strongly distinguished (see Wissowa, R.K. p. 318, who quotes Gaius ii. 2: "summa itaque rerum divisio in duos articulos diducitur, nam aliae sunt divini iuris, aliae humani"). But it is almost certain that there was originally no such clear distinction. The general opinion of historians of Roman law is thus expressed by Cuq (Institutions juridiques des Romains, p. 54): "Le droit civil n'a eu d'abord qu'une portée fort restreinte. Peu à peu il a gagné du terrain, il a entrepris de réglementer des rapports qui autrefois étaient du domaine de la religion. Pendant longtemps à Rome le droit théocratique a coexisté avec le droit civil." (See also Muirhead, Introduction to Roman Law, ed. Goudy, p. 15.) Possibly the formation of an organised calendar, marking off the days belonging to the deities from those which were not so made over to them, first gave the opportunity for the gradual realisation of the thought that the set of rules under which the citizen was responsible to the divine beings was not exactly the same as that under which he was responsible to the civil authorities. The distinction took many ages to realise in all its aspects, and is not complete even under the XII. Tables or later, because the sanction for civil offences remained in great part a divine one; on this point Jhering is certainly wrong (Geist des röm. Rechts, i. 267 foll.). As Cuq remarks (p. 54, note 1), one institution of the ius divinum kept its force after the complete secularisation of law, and retains it to this day, viz. the oath.

If there was originally no distinction between religious and civil rules of law, it follows that there were originally no two distinguishing terms for them. The earliest passage in which they are distinguished as ius divinum and humanum (so far as I know) is Cicero's speech for Sestius (B.C. 56), sec. 91, quoted by Wissowa, p. 319: "domicilia coniuncta quas urbes dicimus, invento et divino iure et humano, moenibus cinxerunt." But by all British writers on Roman law, and by many foreign ones, the word fas is used as equivalent to the ius divinum, and sharply distinguished from ius. Thus the late Dr. Greenidge, in his useful work on Roman public life (p. 52 and elsewhere), makes this distinction; he writes of the rex as the chief expounder of the divine law (fas), and of the control exercised by fas over the citizen's life. Cp. Muirhead, ed. Goudy, p. 15 foll., where Mommsen is quoted thus: "Mommsen is probably near the mark when he describes the leges regiae as mostly rules of the fas." But Mommsen, like Wissowa in his Religion und Kultus, does not use the word fas, but speaks of "Sakralrecht." Sohm, on the other hand (Roman Law, trans. Ledlie, p. 15, note), compares fas with Sanscrit dharma and Greek themis, as meaning unwritten rules of divine origin, which eventually gave way before ius, as in Greece before δἱκαιον. (Cp. Binder, Die Plebs, p. 501.) But it is safer in this case to leave etymology alone, and to try to discover what the Romans themselves understood by fas, which is indeed a peculiar and puzzling word. (For its possible connection with fari, effari (ager effatus), fanum, and profanum, etc., see H. Nettleship's Contributions to Latin Lexicography, s.v. "Fas.")

Fas was at all times indeclinable, and is rarely found even as an accusative, as in Virg. Aen. ix. 96:

mortaline manu factae immortale carinae fas habeant?

In the oldest examples of its use, i.e. in the ancient calendar QRCF, on March 24 and May 24, i.e. "quando rex comitiavit fas" (Varro, L.L. vi. 31), and QStDF on June 15, i.e. "Quando stercus delatum fas" (Varro, L.L. vi. 32), it is hard to say whether it is a substantive at all, and not rather an adverb like satis. So, too, in the antique language of the lex templi of Furfo (58 B.C.) we read, "Utii tangere sarcire tegere devehere defigere mandare ferro oeti promovere referre fasque esto" (liceat should probably be inserted before fasque esto). See CIL. i. 603, line 7; Dessau, Inscript. Lat. selectae, ii. 1. 4906, p. 246. In these examples fas simply means that you may do certain acts without breaking religious law; it does not stand for the religious law itself. To me it looks like a technical word of the ius divinum, meaning that which it is lawful to do under it; thus a dies fastus is one on which it is lawful under that ius to perform certain acts of civil government, "sine piaculo" (Varro, L.L. vi. 29). Nefas is, therefore, in the same way a word which conveys a prohibition under the divine law. By constant juxtaposition with ius, fas came in course of time to take on the character of a substantive, and so too did its opposite nefas. The dictionaries supply many examples of its use as a substantive and as paralleled with ius, but the only one I can find that is earlier than Cicero is Terence, Hecyra, iii. 3. 27, i.e. in the work of a non-Roman.

I cannot find that it is so used by Varro, where we might naturally have expected it. Cicero does not call his imaginary ius divinum a fas, but iura religionum, constitutio religionum (de Legibus ii. 10-23, 17-32). Ius is the word always used technically of particular departments of the religious law, e.g. ius pontificium, ius augurale, and ius fetiale (CIL. i. p. 202, is preimus ius fetiale paravit). The notion that fas could mean a kind of code of religious law is probably due to Virgil's use of the word in "Quippe etiam festis quaeddam exercere diebus Fas et iura sinunt," Georg. i. 269, and to the comment of Servius, "id est, divina humanaque iura permittunt: nam ad religionem fas, ad homines iura pertinent."

It is strange to find it personified as a kind of deity in the formula of the fetiales, used when they announced the Roman demands at an enemy's frontier (Livy i. 32): "Audi Iuppiter, inquit, audite Fines (cuiuscunque gentis sunt nominat), audiat Fas." Whence did Livy get this formula? We have no record of a book of the fetiales; if this came from those of the pontifices, as is probable, the formula need not be of ancient date, and the personification of Fines also suggests a doubt as to the genuineness of the whole formula.


APPENDIX V

The Worship of Sacred Utensils (page 436)

There can be no doubt that some kind of worship was paid by the Arval Brethren to certain ollae, or primitive vessels of sun-baked clay used in their most ancient rites. This is attested by two inscriptions of different ages which are printed on pp. 26 and 27 of Henzen's Acta Fratrum Arvalium. After leaving their grove and entering the temple "in mensa sacrum fecerunt ollis"; and shortly afterwards, "in aedem intraverunt et ollas precati sunt." Then, to our astonishment, we read that the door of the temple was opened, and the ollae thrown down the slope in front of it. This last act seems inexplicable; but the worship finds a singular parallel in the dairy ritual of the Todas of the Nilghiri hills.

Dr. Rivers, in his work on the Todas (Macmillan, 1906, p. 453), in summing up his impressions of their worship, observes that "the attitude of worship which is undoubtedly present in the Toda mind is becoming transferred from the gods themselves to the material objects used in the service of the gods." "The religious attitude of worship is being transferred from the gods themselves to the objects round which centres the ritual of the dairy." These objects are mainly the bells of the buffaloes and the dairy vessels; and an explicit account of them, the reverence in which they are held, and the prayers in which they are mentioned, will be found in the fifth, sixth, and eighth chapters of Dr. Rivers' work, which, as an account of what seems to be a religion atrophied by over-development of ritual, is in many ways of great interest to the student of Roman religious experience. The following sentence will appeal to the readers of these Lectures:—

"The Todas seem to show us how the over-development of the ritual aspect of religion may lead to atrophy of those ideas and beliefs through which the religion has been built up; and then how, in its turn, the ritual may suffer, and acts which are performed mechanically, with no living ideas behind them, may come to be performed carelessly and incompletely, while religious observances which involve trouble and discomfort may be evaded or completely neglected."

Whether the worship of the ollae was a part of the original ritual of the Brethren, or grew up after its revival by Augustus, it is impossible to determine. But if we can allow the dairy ritual of the Todas to help us in the matter, we may conclude that in any case it was not really primitive, and that it was a result of that process of over-ritualisation to which must also be ascribed the piacula caused by the growth of a fig-tree on the roof of the temple, and the three Sondergötter Adolenda Commolenda Deferunda. (See above p. 161 foll., and Henzen, Acta Fratr. Arv. p. 147.)


INDEX

  • Acca Larentia, 67
  • Acolytes, 177
  • Adolenda, 162
  • Addenda Commolenda Deferunda, 162, 490
  • Aedes Vestae: see Vesta
  • Aediles, plebeian, 255
  • Aemilius Paulus, 340, 362, 433
  • Aeneid, the, 119, 206, 230, 250, 251;
    • as a means of understanding the spirit of the Roman religion, 254; a poem of religion and morals, 409-425
  • Aesculapius, 260
  • Ager paganus: lustration, 80, 213
    • Romanus: lustration, 78, 100
  • Agriculture, the economic basis of Roman life, 99;
    • festivals, see Festivals
  • Agrippa, 442, 443
  • Alba Longa, 109, 128
  • Alban Mount: Latin festival, 172;
  • Alexander, Archibald, on faith, 472
  • Ambarvalia, procession of the, 214, 218, 442
  • Amburbium, 214, 218, 332
  • Amulets, 42, 59, 60, 74, 84
  • Ancilia, 97;
  • Angerona, 117
  • Animism, 65, 122, 148, 164, 287
  • Anna Perenna: festival, 65, 105, 346;
    • Ovid's account of, 473
  • Antoninus Pius, 429
  • Apollo, 257, 449;
    • cult of, 268;
    • associated with Diana, 443, 446;
    • with Latona, 262;
    • the Pythian, 323;
    • temple, 443-445;
    • institution of Apolline games, 326
  • Appius Claudius, 300
  • Aquaelicium, ceremony of the, 50, 52
  • Ara, meaning of, 146
  • Ara Maxima in the Forum Boarium 29, 230
  • Ara Pacis of Augustus, 177, 437, 448
  • Argei: festival, 36, 65;
  • Armilustrium, 97
  • Army: lustration of, 96, 100, 215, 217
  • Arnobius, 51, 52, 459, 461, 465
  • Artemis, 235, 443
  • Arval Brethren: see Fratres Arvales
  • Asclepios, 260
  • Astrology, 396-398, 401
  • Ateius Capito, 441
  • Athene Polias, 234
  • Attalus, king of Pergamus, 330
  • Atticus, Cicero's letters to, 385
  • Attus Navius, soothsayer, 297
  • Augurium canarium, 310
  • Augurs, 174-176, 193, 271, 276;
    • and the art of divination, 292-309;
    • in relation to the Rex, 301;
    • art strictly secret, 301;
    • compared with pontifices, 303
    • lore preserved in books, 303;
    • political importance, 305
  • Augustus, 35, 133, 213, 344;
    • revival of religion, 428-447;
    • his connection with Virgil, 428;
    • pontifex maximus, 433;
    • restoration of temples, 433-434;
    • revival of ancient ritual, 434-436;
    • restorer of the pax deorum, 438
  • Aurelius, Marcus, 456
  • Auspicia, 175, 214;
    • in life of family, 299;
    • in State operations, 300;
    • indissolubly connected with imperuim, 301
  • Aust, on religion of the family, 68;
    • on Roman deities, 157;
    • on prayer, 198;
    • on reaction against the ius divinum, 349
  • Aventine: plebeian quarter, 255;
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  • Beans, used to get rid of ghosts, 85, 107;
    • taboo on eating, 91, 98
  • Bellona, connection with Mars, 166
  • Bibulus, 305
  • Binder, Dr., on the plebs, 23, 86, 242, 289, 393
  • Birds, used in augury, 293, 296, 299, 302
  • Birth, spirits invoked at, 83, 84, 164
  • Blood: taboo on, 33;
    • mystic use of, 33, 34, 82;
    • not prominent in Roman ritual, 180-181;
    • consecration through, 194;
    • wine as substitute for, 196
  • Boissier, G., 391;
  • Bona Dea, 484
  • Bouché-Leclercq, M., on divination, 310
  • Boundary festivals: see Terminalia
  • Boundary stones, 81-82, 212;
    • sprinkled with blood of victims, 34, 82, 196
  • Bulla worn by children, 60, 74
  • Burial places loca religiosa, 37, 385
  • Bussell, F. W., cited, 366, 367
  •  
  • Caesar, Julius: belief in spells, 59;
    • calendar, 95;
    • pontifex maximus, 305;
    • and the priesthood, 343
  • Caesar-worship, 437, 438, 456
  • Caird, Professor, 357;
  • Cakes: honey, 82;
  • Calendar, the ancient religious, 12, 14, 34, 38, 55, 65, 217, 225;
    • described, 94-109;
    • in relation to agricultural life, 100-102, 282, 295;
    • festivals necessarily fixed, 102;
    • a matter of routine, 103;
    • its psychological result, 104-105;
    • a document of religious law, 106;
    • exclusion of the barbarous and grotesque, 107;
    • attributed to Numa Pompilius, 108
    • Julian, 95
  • Calpurnius Piso, L.: see Piso
  • Camilli and camillae, 177, 195
  • Campus Martius, 34, 447;
  • Cannae, religious panic after the battle of, 319
  • Cantorelli, on the annales maximi, 290
  • Capitolium, 238, 239, 246, 339;
  • Caprotinae, Nonae, 143
  • Cardea, 76;
    • connection with Janus, 485
  • Caristia, 418, 457
  • Carmen, meaning of, 186;
  • Carmenta, 36, 122, 297
  • Carmentalia, 98
  • Carna, 117
  • Carter, J. B., on cult-titles, 153;
    • on the Latins, 229-230;
    • on Castor-cult, 232, 244;
    • on Diana, 236;
    • on Fortuna, 245;
    • on Hercules, 231;
    • on Janus, 141;
    • on Juno, 144;
    • on the Manes, 386;
    • on Mars, 133;
    • on Poseidon-Neptune, 260
  • Cassius Hemina, 349, 356
  • Castor and Pollux, 231, 244;
  • Cato, the Censor, 121, 132, 182-184, 251, 296, 298, 340
  • Catullus, on death, 387
  • Censors, lustrum of the, 203, 210, 215, 219
  • Census, 215, 218
  • Cerealia, 100, 121, 269
  • Ceres, 100, 121, 139, 161, 162, 260, 435, 446;
  • Cerfius, or Cerus, 158
  • Chaldeans, 296;
    • expelled from Rome, 397, 402
  • Charms, 59-62;
    • see also Amulets
  • Chickens, sacred, as omens, 314, 315
  • Children: purificatory rites, 28;
    • naming of, 28-29, 42;
    • amulets and bulla worn by, 42, 60, 74, 84;
    • dedication of, 204-205
  • Christianity, early: contributions from the Roman religion, 452-467;
    • the Greek and Latin fathers compared, 458-459;
    • its relation to morality, 471
  • Cicero, 58, 178, 296, 309;
    • on religiousness of the Romans, 249-250;
    • on Titus Coruncanius, 281-282;
    • on divination, 299, 312;
    • on interest of the gods in human affairs, 360;
    • on Stoicism, 365-368, 377;
    • on relation of man to God, 370;
    • affected by revival of Pythagoreanism, 381, 383, 389;
    • turns to mysticism, 384, 388;
    • his letters to Atticus, 385;
    • his Somnium Scipionis, 383, 386, 412;
    • belief in a future life, 389;
    • definition of religio, 460
  • Claudius, Emperor, 309, 438
  • Claudius Pulcher, P., 315
    • Quadrigarius, 39
  • Cleanthes, hymn of, 368, 377
  • Clusius (or Clusivius), cult-title of Janus, 126
  • Coinquenda, 162
  • Colonia, religious rites at founding of, 170
  • Compitalia, 61, 78, 81, 88, 102
  • Concordia, 285
  • Conditor, 161
  • Confarreatio, marriage by, 83, 130, 274
  • Coniuratio, 347, 348, 356
  • Consolatio, 388
  • Constantius, 430
  • Consualia, 101, 139
  • Consuls, annual ceremony at the Capitoline temple, 203, 219, 239-240
  • Consus, 285;
    • connection with Ops, 482
  • Convector, 161
  • Conway, Professor, on Quirinus and Quirites, 143
  • Cook, A. B., on Jupiter, 128, 141;
    • on Janus, 140;
    • on Quirinus and Quirites, 143
  • Corn deities, Greek, 255, 259
  • Corpus Inscriptionum, 13, 201
  • Coruncanius, Titus, 271, 279, 281, 290
  • Coulanges, Fustel de, on the Lar, 77
  • Crawley, Mr., on the fatherhood of gods, 157;
    • on religion and morality, 227, 242
  • Cremation, 382, 395, 398, 401
  • Crooke, Mr., on luck in odd numbers, 98
  • Cult-titles, invention of, 153
  • Cumont, Professor, on the religion of the Romans, 2;
    • on Jupiter, 246
  • Cunina, 159
  • Cuq, on civil and religious law, 486
  • Cura et caerimonia, Cicero's expression, 81, 104, 106, 108, 145, 162, 170, 270, 282, 343, 434, 460
  • Curia, 138
  • Curiatius, 126
  • Cynics, the, 372
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  • Days, lucky and unlucky, 38-41;
    • see also Dies
  • De Marchi, on votive offerings, 201, 202
  • Dea Dia, 146;
    • description of rites, 435-436;
    • veneration for utensils used, 436;
    • temple, 161, 436
  • Dead: disposal of the, 45, 84, 121, 395, 401;
  • Decemviri, 259, 317, 318, 326
  • Decius Mus, self-sacrifice of, 206-207, 220, 286, 320
  • Deities, Roman: see also Numen and Spirits;
    • sources of our knowledge of, 114-115;
    • mental conception of the Romans regarding, 115-117, 122-123, 139-140, 145, 147, 157, 224-225;
    • di indigetes, 117, 139, 149, 180, 214;
    • functional spirits with will-power, 119;
    • the four great gods, 124-134;
    • epithets of Pater and Mater applied to, 137, 155-157;
    • the question of marriage, 148-152, 166, 350, 481-485;
    • fluctuation between male and female, 148-149;
    • nomenclature, 118, 149-156, 163;
    • compared with Greek gods, 158;
    • presence of, at meals, 172-173, 193;
    • introduction of new, 96, 229-242, 255-262;
    • women's, see Women
  • Delphic oracle consulted during Hannibalic war, 323-324, 326
  • Demeter, 255;
    • supersession of Ceres by, 100
  • Deubner, Professor, his theory of the Lupercalia, 138, 478-480
  • Devotio, 206-209, 219-221;
  • Di Manes: see Manes
  • Di Penates: see Penates
  • Diana: associated with Janus, 76, 125, 166;
  • Dies comitiales, 103
  • Dieterich, on disposal of the dead, 401
  • Dill, Professor, on Roman worship, 200
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 130, 193, 215, 234, 250
  • Dionysus: identified with Liber, 255, 344;
    • ritual, in Greece, 344-345;
    • outbreak of Dionysiac orgies in Italy, 344
  • Dis, black victims sacrificed to, 440
  • Dius Fidius, connection with Jupiter, 130, 142
  • Divination, 56, 180;
    • a universal instinct of human nature, 292, 306;
    • connection with magic, 293, 310;
    • views on the origin of, 293;
    • formalised by State authorities, 295, 300;
    • private, 295;
    • quack diviners, 296-298;
    • auspicia of family religion, 298-300;
    • public, 301;
    • duties of the Rex, 302;
    • lore preserved in books, 303;
    • divination by lightning, 51, 52, 304, 305, 307, 309;
    • no lasting value in sphere of religion, 306;
    • a clog on progress, 307;
    • sinister influence of Etruscan divination on Rome, 307
  • Dobschütz, on Christianity, 455
  • Dogs: sacrifices: see Sacrifices
  • Dolabella, Cornelius, 342
  • Döllinger, Dr., on the Flamen Dialis, 112;
    • on prayer, 468
  • Domaszewski, von, cited, 99, 110, 154, 167;
    • definition of numen, 119;
    • on the cult epithets of Janus, 140;
    • on Juno, 144;
    • on evolution of dei out of functional numina, 165
  • Duhn, Professor von, cited, 31, 89
  • Dynamic theory of sacrifice, 177, 184, 190, 194
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  • Earthquakes, expiation of, 339
  • Eilithyia, Greek deity of childbirth, 442, 446, 449
  • Ennius, cited, 65, 152, 183, 298, 322, 350, 351, 356
  • Epictetus, 369, 372
  • Epicurism, 352, 358, 360, 361, 375, 376, 381, 404, 453
  • Epicurus, 359
  • Epulum Iovis: see Jupiter
  • Equirria, 96, 99, 217
  • Eschatology, Christian: preparation of the Roman mind for, 454
  • Esquiline, 87, 395
  • Etruscans, 17;
  • Evil spirits, 11, 29, 75, 76, 84, 93;
    • wolf's fat as a charm against, 90
  • Evocatio, 58, 206
  • Excantatio, 58, 482
  • Extipicina, Etruscan rite of, 180
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  • Fabius Pictor, 161, 261, 318, 320, 323, 326
  • Falacer, 122
  • Family (familia): origin and meaning of, 70, 86;
    • religion in the, 68, 70, 73, 92, 116, 224, 226-228, 251, 270, 274, 298-300;
    • description of the house, 72-73, 87;
    • its holy places, 73;
    • spirits of the household: see Spirits;
    • the Lar familiaris, 77;
    • position of slaves, 78;
    • religio terminorum, 82;
    • marriage, 83;
    • childbirth, 83;
    • burial of the dead, 73, 92;
    • maintenance of the sacra, 274-275
  • Fanum, meaning of, 146
  • Far, sacred cakes of, 45, 83, 130, 141, 180, 274
  • Farnell, Dr., cited, 19, 27, 160, 161, 205;
    • on the vow of the ver sacrum, 219;
    • on Dionysiac ritual, 345, 355
  • Farreus, connection with Jupiter, 130
  • Fas, early usage of, 487-488
  • Fasti: see Calendar
  • Faunalia, 137
  • Faunus, 81, 89, 297, 479;
    • connection with Lupercalia, 117
  • Februum, meaning of, 210, 222
  • Feretrius, cult-title of Jupiter: see Jupiter
  • Feriae Iovis, 129
  • Feronia, 284, 318
  • Ferrero, on the Carmen saeculare, 431, 450;
    • on the ludi saeculares, 440
  • Fertility, customs to produce, 100, 106, 143, 210, 222, 479
  • Festivals, 78-81, 97, 105;
    • agricultural, 34, 82, 98, 100, 120;
    • harvest, 98, 101, 121;
    • vintage, 100, 129;
    • of the dead: see Dead;
    • Latin festival on Alban mount, 172;
    • in calendar, necessarily fixed, 95, 99, 102;
    • women's: see Women
  • Festus, 33, 61, 141, 217
  • Fetiales, 31, 130, 143, 157, 251, 434, 488
  • Fides, 154, 446, 450;
    • connection with Jupiter, 167
  • Fig-tree: sprouting of, on roof of temple, 162;
    • piacula offered to various deities, 436, 490
  • Flamen Cerealis, 161, 163
  • Flamines, 113, 122, 123, 175, 193, 280, 341, 434;
    • insignia, 177;
    • personal purity essential, 178, 195
  • Flaminica Dialis, 135, 144;
    • insignia, 177;
    • taboos on, 35-36
  • Flaminius, 315, 317, 338, 340
  • Flora, 122
  • Fons, 117, 285
  • Forculus, the door spirit, 76
  • Fordicidia, 100, 120, 121
  • Fornacalia, 173
  • Fortuna (Fors Fortuna), 201, 235, 245, 284, 297, 396, 401
  • Forum Boarium, human sacrifices, 112, 320
  • Fratres Arvales: Acta Fratrum Arvalium, 161, 213, 435;
  • Frazer, Dr. J. G., his definition of religion, 8;
  • Fulgur, cult-title of Jupiter, 129
  • Furrina, 18, 117, 122
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  • Gallus, Aelius, on religiosum, 37
  • Games instituted to divert attention in times of trouble, 262-263;
    • Apolline, 326;
    • see also Ludi
  • Gardner, Professor E., cited, 355
  • Gardner, Professor P., on Christianity, 452;
    • on prayers for the dead, 457;
    • cited, 465
  • Gellius, Aulus, on the conjunction of divine names, 150-152;
    • story of Scipio, 240;
    • on religiousness of the Romans, 250
  • Genius: the male principle of life, 30, 92, 154, 317, 332;
    • of the paterfamilias, 30;
    • doubtful identification of Hercules with, 30;
    • in combination with Hercules and Juventas, 332;
    • Juno the feminine counterpart of, 87
  • Gennep, M. van, on taboo, 42, 44;
  • Gentes, 69, 259
  • Georgics, the religious spirit of the, 407
  • Ghosts, 75, 85, 91, 92, 107
  • Gilds, trade, 230
  • Glover, Mr., on Christianity, 456
  • God, as represented in the Aeneid, 426
  • Gods: see Deities
  • Gratitude, not a prominent characteristic of the Roman, 252, 267
  • Greek comedy, influence on Roman religion, 351-353
    • gods, compared with Roman, 158;
    • introduced into Rome, 230-242
    • literature, 296
    • philosophy, influence on Roman religion, 357-375
  • Greenidge, Dr., on the auspicia and the imperium, 301
  • Gregory the Great, 475
  • Gwatkin, Professor, on Augustine, 469;
    • on the relation of early Christianity to morality, 471
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  • Haddon, Professor, on supernaturalism, 21
  • Hades, 390, 391
  • Hannibalic War: revival of religio, 315, 317;
    • Sibylline books consulted, 316-319, 329;
    • sacrifices and offerings made to deities, 318;
    • religious panic after battle of Cannae, 319;
    • human sacrifices, 320;
    • Delphic oracle consulted, 323, 324, 326;
    • outbreak of lascivia, 324;
    • institution of Apolline games, 326;
    • religious history of last years, 327-329;
    • gratitude to deities, 329;
    • the Magna Mater of Pessinus brought to Rome, 330
  • Hardie, Professor, and the double altar in connection with funeral rites, 425
  • Hariolus, 297, 298, 311
  • Harrison, Miss, on covering the head at sacrifices, 195
  • Haruspices, 296, 313, 337, 338, 397;
    • history of the, 307-309
  • Hebe, 332
  • Heinze, on the Aeneid, 413-415, 419, 426, 427
  • Heitland, Mr., on Bacchanalia, 346, 356
  • Heracleitus, 257
  • Hercules: associated with Diana, 262;
    • with Juno, 17;
    • in combination with Juventas and Genius, 317, 332;
    • doubtful identification with Genius, 30;
    • identified with the Greek Heracles, 230, 243;
    • Victor or Invictus, 230, 231, 236, 243, 244;
    • cult of, 231, 244;
    • festival, 243;
    • worship confined to men, 29
  • Hermes, 260
  • Hirtzel, Mr., cited, 426
  • Homer, religion of, compared with that of Roman patricians, 392
  • Honey cakes, 82
  • Honos et Virtus, 285, 446;
  • Horace, 81, 299, 403, 405;
  • Hora Quirini, 482-483
  • Horses: lustrations, 96, 215;
    • races, 97;
    • sacrifice of, see Sacrifices
  • Howerth, Ira W., his definition of religion, 8
  • Hubert et Mauss, on magic, 64, 65;
  • Human sacrifice, 33, 44, 107, 112, 226, 320, 440
  • Hut-urns, sepulchral, 87, 477
  • Huts or booths, use of, in religious ritual, 473-477
  • Huvelin, M., on magic, 64
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  • Ides, 39, 65, 95, 251, 484;
    • sacred to Jupiter, 129
  • Iguvium: ritual, 22, 138, 181, 197;
  • Images and statues of gods, 146, 147, 165, 239, 262, 264, 336, 337;
    • statue of Athene, 355
  • Immortality, belief in, 69, 386-387, 389, 424
  • Imporcitor, 161
  • Inauguratio of the priest-king Numa, 174-175, 193
  • Incense, 164, 180, 330, 458
  • Indigetes, di, 117, 139, 149, 180, 214
  • Indigitamenta, 76, 84, 88, 130, 138, 153, 159-161, 163, 165, 168, 281, 286, 291
  • Individualism, growth of, 240, 266, 287, 340, 358, 411, 456
  • Innocent, Bishop of Rome, 309
  • Iron, tabooed in religious ceremonies, 32, 35, 45, 214
  • Isis: religion, 455, 456;
  • Ius, early usage of, 486-487
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  • Janus: the door spirit, 76, 127, 146;
  • Jebb, Professor, on poetry of the Greeks, 424
  • Jevons, Dr., 19;
    • on totemism, 26;
    • on taboo, 28, 41;
    • on magic, 48, 186;
    • on priests, 176
  • Jews, proselytising, expelled from Rome, 139 B.C., 397, 402
  • Jhering, von, on origin of Roman divination, 293, 294, 311
  • Jordan, H., 13;
    • on pairing of deities, 152
  • Junius, 315
  • Juno, 121, 479;
  • Junonius, cult-title of Janus, 126
  • Jupiter, 115, 118, 124, 127, 128, 141, 143, 147, 159, 183, 212;
  • Juturna, 284, 285;
    • connection with Jupiter, 485
  • Juventas, in combination with Genius and Hercules, 317, 332
  •  
  • Kalends, 39, 95, 126, 135, 251, 484
  • Kobbert, Maximilianus, on religio, 46
  • Kronos, identified with Saturnus, 118
  •  
  • Lactantius, 156, 165, 388, 459, 461, 462, 469
  • Lang, Mr., 19;
    • cited in connection with the calendar of Numa, 105
  • Lapis: see Stones
  • Laralia: see Compitalia
  • Larentia, Acca, 67
  • Lar familiaris, 77, 78, 92, 251
  • Lares compitales, 61, 117, 132, 186
  • Latin Festival: see Feriae Latinae
  • Latins, the, 10, 23, 25, 86, 123, 130, 172, 193, 229
  • Latona, associated with Apollo, 262
  • Laughing, in ritual of Lupercalia, 106, 111
  • Laurel branches carried in procession, 265
  • Lawson, J. C., on burial and cremation, 91, 400, 401
  • Leather, tabooed in the worship of Carmenta, 36
  • Lecky, Mr., on Stoicism, 362, 377
  • Lectisternium, 263-266, 268, 317-319, 327
  • Leges regiae, connection with the ius divinum, 272
  • Leland, C. G., 67
  • Lemuria, 40, 85, 98, 107, 401;
    • compared with the Parentalia, 393-395
  • Lepidus, pontifex maximus, 433, 438
  • Liber, 158, 260, 332;
    • identified with Dionysus, 255, 344;
    • temple, 255
  • Libera, 260;
    • identified with Persephone, 255
  • Liberalia, 332
  • Libitina, 159
  • Licinius Imbrex, 151
  • Licinius, P., pontifex maximus, 342
  • Lightning, divination by, 51, 52, 304, 305, 307, 309
  • Limentinus, spirit of the threshold, 76
  • Livius Andronicus, 328
  • Livy, cited, 170, 174, 204, 205, 216, 217, 252, 261, 264, 269, 280, 300, 316, 324, 405;
    • on Bacchanalia, 346-348
  • Lua, 165, 481, 482
  • Lucaria, 98
  • Lucetius, cult-title of Jupiter, 129
  • Lucilius, 156, 183
  • Lucretius, cited, 352, 359, 360, 376, 387, 394, 396, 403-406, 453;
    • his contempt for superstitio, 361, 367;
    • on Roman belief in Hades, 390;
    • his use of religio, 460
  • Lucus, meaning of, 146
  • Ludi, 44, 95, 122, 204: see also Games
    • magni, vowed to Jupiter during Hannibalic war, 319, 333
    • saeculares, 34, 431, 480;
    • prayers used in, 198, 468;
    • ritual described, 438-447;
    • discovery of inscriptions, 439
    • scenici, 261, 263, 350
  • Lupercalia, 20, 34, 53, 65, 106, 118, 179, 194, 210, 393;
    • whipping to produce fertility, 54, 479;
    • Prof. Deubner's theory, 137, 478-480
  • Luperci, 34, 54, 106, 434, 479
  • Lupercus, 478
  • Lustrations: meaning of lustrare, 209-210;
    • lustration of the ager paganus, 80, 213;
    • of the ager Romanus, 78, 100;
    • of ancilia, 96, 217;
    • of the army, 96, 100, 215, 217;
    • of the arx of Iguvium, 187, 199;
    • of cattle and sheep, 100;
    • of the city, 214, 317;
    • of the farm, 132, 212;
    • of horses, 96, 215;
    • of people, 31, 216;
    • of trumpets, 96, 215;
    • animistic conception of, 211;
    • ultimately adapted by Roman Church to its own ritual, 211, 218, 457
  • Luthard, on Roman religion, 288
  •  
  • Macrobius, cited, 28, 196, 206, 208, 219, 220, 484
  • Macte esto, meaning of the phrase, 182, 183, 197, 442
  • Magic: allied to taboo, 27, 47;
    • contagious and homoeopathic, 48;
    • and divination, 293, 309;
    • harmless, 59;
    • prayers and incantations, 185, 186, 198;
    • private, 57, 68;
    • in purificatory processes, 210;
    • and religion, 47-49, 56, 224, 253;
    • rigorously excluded from State ritual, 49, 57, 105, 107, 224;
    • sympathetic, 50, 55
  • Magna Mater of Pessinus, brought to Rome, 330, 344, 348
  • Maia, 165, 166;
    • connection with Volcanus, 151, 484
  • Maiestas, 151, 484
  • Mana, the positive aspect of taboo, 27, 30, 42, 48, 60
  • Manes, 39, 50, 75, 85, 92, 102, 106, 121, 208, 320, 341, 391, 392;
    • individualisation of, 386;
    • Di Manes, 341, 386
  • Mania, mother of the Lares, 61
  • Manilius, his poem on astrology, 396
  • Mannhardt, his theory of the Vegetation-spirit, 19-20, 478;
    • on laughing in ritual of the Lupercalia, 111-112
  • Marcellus, 315, 328
  • Marcius, Latin oracles supposed to be written by, 326
  • Marcius Rex, praetor, 339
  • Marcus Aurelius, 369, 429
  • Marett, Mr., on taboo, 42, 45;
    • on sacrificium, 192;
    • on divination, 310
  • Marquardt, on Roman religion, 13, 16;
    • on naming of children, 42
  • Marriage: a religious ceremony, 83, 177, 274, 279;
    • Tellus an object of worship at, 121;
    • among deities, 148-152, 166, 350, 481-485
  • Mars, 124, 129, 147, 204, 208, 215, 246, 319;
    • various forms of his name, 131;
    • as a married god, 150-152, 166;
    • invocations to, 186, 212;
    • connection with Bellona, 166;
    • with Nerio, 150-151, 166;
    • with Quirinus, 134, 150;
    • pater, 212;
    • Silvanus, 29, 132, 142;
    • cult of, 132-134;
    • festival, 96-97;
    • temple, 133
  • Martianus Capella, 308
  • Masson, Dr., 357, 395;
    • on Roman fear of future torments, 391
  • Mastarna, Etruscan name of Servius Tullus, 237, 246
  • Masurius Sabinus, 90
  • Matutinus, cult-title of Janus, 126
  • Meals, sacrificial, 172, 173, 193, 436;
    • epulum Iovis: see under Jupiter
  • Megalesia, 330
  • Mens, 285
  • Mercurius (Hermes), 260, 262, 268, 484
  • Messor, 161
  • Mildew, spirit of the: see Robigus
  • Minerva, one of the Etruscan trias, 94, 237;
  • Minium, faces painted with, 82, 115, 336
  • Minucius Felix, 461
  • Mithras, religion of, 455, 456, 464
  • Moirae (Parcae), 442, 446
  • Mola salsa: see Salt-cake
  • Moles, 150, 154, 158
  • Mommsen, cited, 200, 440;
    • and the religion of the Romans, 2;
    • on the Fasti anni Romani, 95, 96, 111;
    • on Carmen saeculare, 444
  • Mucius Scaevola: see Scaevola
  • Murus, 94
  • Mysticism, 380-398, 404;
    • in the form of astrology, 396, 401;
    • not native to the Roman, 454
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  • Neo-Pythagoreanism: see Mysticism
  • Neptunalia, 474
  • Neptunus, 117;
    • identified with Poseidon, 118, 260;
    • connection with Salacia, 150, 483;
    • with Mercurius, 262
  • Nerio: connection with Mars, 150-151, 166;
    • meaning of Nerio Martis, 150, 154
  • Nettleship, Professor, on the phrase macte esto, 197;
    • on the character of Aeneas, 410, 427;
    • on sanctus, 470
  • Nigidius Figulus, 299, 384, 397
  • Nones, 39, 95, 251;
    • Nonae Caprotinae, 143
  • Numa Pompilius, priest-king: Livy's account of his inauguratio, 174-175;
  • Numbers, mystic, 98, 328, 334, 441, 449
  • Numen, 34, 111, 250, 264, 364, 365, 367, 407;
    • meaning of the word, 118;
    • von Domaszewski's definition of, 119;
    • evolution of dei out of functional numina, 165;
    • see also Spirits and Deities
  •  
  • Oak-gods, 125, 129, 141, 143
  • Oaths: connection of Castor and Pollux with, 232;
    • of Hercules, 231;
    • of Jupiter, 130;
    • taken in open air, 141-142;
    • the religious, in public life, 358, 375;
    • used by women, 244;
    • taboo on, 343, 355
  • Oberator, 161
  • October horse, 20, 34, 65, 106;
  • Odd numbers, luck in, 98
  • Ollae, worship of, 489-490
  • Opalia, 101
  • Opiconsiva, 101
  • Ops, 156;
    • connection with Consus, 482;
    • with Saturnus, 482
  • Oracles, 339, 354;
    • see also Delphic oracle
  • Orcus, 166;
    • the old name for the abode of the Manes, 391, 392;
    • sacrifice of captives to, 44
  • Orosius, 333
  • Orphic doctrine, 381;
  • Oscilla, 61, 67;
    • Dr. Frazer's theory, 61;
    • see also Puppets
  • Otto, W., on connection of religio with practice of taboo, 46
  • Ovid, on Roman gods, 22;
    • his picture of the Sementivae, 79, 80;
    • rite of pagus, 82;
    • on the Lemuria, 107, 112, 394;
    • on Janus, 125;
    • on images of gods, 147;
    • on the Robigalia, 181, 196, 197, 434;
    • on meals at sacrifices, 193;
    • on the word februum, 210;
    • on annual ceremony by consuls, 219;
    • on the festival of Anna Perenna, 346, 473
  •  
  • Paganalia, 61, 62, 67, 102
  • Pagus: the familia in relation to, 71;
    • meaning of the word, 87;
    • festival of the Lar, 78;
    • other festivals, 79;
    • the religio terminorum, 81-82;
    • lustrations of the, 213, 214
  • Pais, on Acca Larentia, 67;
    • on the Tarquinii and Mastarna, 245
  • Palatine: Carmen saeculare sung on the, 443-447, 450;
    • temple of Apollo, 443-445
  • Pales, 122, 149
  • Panaetius: and the Scipionic circle, 363-364, 453;
    • his theology, 365;
    • and Platonic psychology, 382, 398
  • Pantheism, Stoic, 366-368
  • Papirius, the consul, 314, 315, 331
  • Parentalia, 40, 107, 387, 401, 418, 457;
    • compared with the Lemuria, 393-395
  • Parilia, 100, 120, 193, 222, 474
  • Pater and Mater, as applied to deities, 155-157
  • Patricians, 259, 304;
    • religious system a monopoly of, 229
  • Patulcius, cult-title of Janus, 126
  • Pax (deity), 446, 451
  • Pax deorum, 169, 224, 261, 264, 272, 276, 286, 302, 328, 329;
  • Pebble-rain, 316, 329, 332
  • Penates, 73, 74, 86, 92, 116, 193
  • Persephone, 255
  • Peter, R., on Indigitamenta, 160
  • Petronius, on ceremony of the aquaelicium, 64
  • Philodemus, 359, 375
  • Picus, 297
  • Pietas, 174, 227, 250, 254, 387, 405, 409-412, 466;
    • meaning of, 462-463;
    • Virgil's word for religion, 412
  • Piso, L. Calpurnius, 51-53, 484
  • Pius, 63, 462;
    • see Pietas
  • Plague, Sibylline books consulted at outbreak of, 261
  • Plato, 258, 381
  • Plautus, 151, 351-352
  • Playwrights, their influence on Roman religion, 240, 351, 353
  • Plebeians, 105, 170;
    • aediles, 255;
    • the Plebs as the original inhabitants of Latium, 242, 259, 268, 289;
    • emotional tendency of, 263-264;
    • opening of priesthoods to, 268, 271, 279;
    • increase of importance under the Etruscan dynasty, 275;
    • first plebeian praetor, 279;
    • pontifex maximus: see Coruncanius, Titus
  • Pliny, 51, 256;
  • Polybius, cited, 250, 253, 316, 363, 369, 390;
    • on religion, 336
  • Pomoerium, 94, 214, 225, 230, 231
  • Pomona (or Pomunus), 122, 149;
    • connection with Vertumnus, 485
  • Pompeianus, prefect of Rome, 309
  • Pomponius, 278, 289
  • Pons sublicius: no iron used in building, 35;
  • Pontifex Maximus, 175, 271, 280, 341;
    • tabula kept by, 283;
    • compelling power of, 342, 355
  • Pontifices, 120, 177, 200, 341;
    • share in festivals, 106, 139;
    • the question of their origin, 180, 195, 271;
    • insignia of, 193;
    • College of, 271;
    • open to plebeians, 268, 271, 279;
    • legal side of their work, 272-276;
    • the XII. Tables, 58, 276-278, 289;
    • self-elected, 276;
    • abolition of legal monopoly, 279;
    • work of, in third century b.c., 282;
    • admission of new deities, 284;
    • compilation of annals, 285;
    • collection of religious formulae, 287;
    • the Pontifical books, 76, 159, 182, 197, 283, 285-286
  • Porca praecidanea, rite of the, 121, 183, 191
  • Portunus, 118, 122
  • Poseidon, identified with Neptunus, 118
  • Posidonius, 250, 365, 367, 382-384, 398
  • Prayers, 76, 106, 126, 153, 215, 224, 225, 251;
    • at the inauguratio of the priest-king Numa, 175;
    • at making of new clearing, 169, 182;
    • at sacrifices, 181-191;
    • at flowering of the pear-trees, 182;
    • when wine is offered, 182;
    • for the ceremony of lustration, 183;
    • form and manner of Roman, 185, 189, 196;
    • magical survivals in, 188-189;
    • in ritual of Ludi saeculares, 442, 449, 468
  • Precatio, 53, 166
  • Priests: see Pontifices
  • Processions: of lustratio, adapted to the ritual of the Roman Church, 211, 218, 457;
    • of the triumphus, 217, 239-240;
    • Roman fondness for, 263;
    • see also Lustrations
  • Procuratio, 316, 328;
    • fulminis, 115
  • Prodigia, 281, 316, 324, 325, 328, 338, 339, 354
  • Promitor, 161
  • Propertius, 22, 147, 403
  • Proserpina, black victims sacrificed to, 440
  • Pudor, 446
  • Pulvinaria, 337, 338
  • Punic War: see Hannibalic War
  • Puppets: Argei thrown into Tiber, 54, 105, 321;
  • Purification: see Lustrations
  • Puticuli, 395, 401
  • Pythagoras, legend of a religious connection between Numa and, 349, 381
  • Pythagoreanism, 349, 380-381
  • Pythagoreans, 98
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  • Quindecemviri, 440, 442
  • Quinquatrus, 217
  • Quirinal, 134
  • Quirinus, 94, 118, 124, 143, 147, 246;
    • identified with Mars, 134;
    • with Romulus, 135
  • Quirites, 134, 143
  •  
  • Rain-making: see Aquaelicium
  • Ramsay, Sir W. M., 465
  • Red colouring in sacred rites and its connection with blood, 89, 177, 194
  • Redarator, 161
  • Regia, 45, 105, 106, 271, 288;
    • sacrarium Martis in, 133, 208
  • Regifugium, 99
  • Reinach, M. Salomon, cited, 26, 42, 114, 131, 481
  • Religio, 9, 28, 30, 36, 38, 72, 76, 83, 85, 93, 104, 106, 174, 223, 227, 241, 248, 261, 263, 267, 270, 273, 282, 287, 294, 364, 405, 407;
  • Religio Larium, 79
    • terminorum, 81, 82
  • Religion, definitions of, 7-9;
  • Roman: a highly formalised system, 3, 63, 103-104, 200, 226, 248-249, 340;
    • compared with Roman law, 5;
    • a technical subject, 6;
    • its difficulties, 13;
    • aid from archaeology and anthropology, 16-20, 25;
    • primitive survivals in, 24, 30;
    • examples of real magic in, 50, 53-54;
    • a reality, 62-63, 103, 249;
    • in the family, see Family;
    • of the State, 93, 105, 226-228, 270;
    • the Calendar of Numa the basis of our knowledge of, 94-109;
    • moral influence mainly disciplinary, 108, 228;
    • Greek influence, 120, 255-262, 346, 350-353;
    • Roman ideas of divinity, 115-117, 122-123, 145-164;
    • ritual of the ius divinum, 169-222;
    • personal purity essential in all worshippers, 178;
    • discouraged individual development, 226;
    • introduction of new deities, 96, 229-242, 255-262;
    • priesthoods limited to patrician families, 229;
    • religious instinct of the Romans, 249;
    • neglect and decay, 263-265, 287, 314, 429;
    • growth of individualism, 240, 266, 287, 340, 358, 411, 456;
    • Sibylline influence, 242, 255-262;
    • secularisation of, 270-291;
    • sinister influence of Etruscan divination, 307-309, 346;
    • see Divination;
    • used for political purposes, 336;
    • attempt to propagate Pythagoreanism, 349-350, 381;
    • destitution of Romans in regard to idea of God and sense of duty, 357-358;
    • no remedy in Epicurism, 361;
    • arrival of Stoicism: see Stoicism and Mysticism;
    • belief in future torments, 390;
    • religion compared with that of Homer, 392;
    • early Christianity, 396;
    • religious feeling in Virgil's poems, 403-427;
    • Augustan revival, 428-451;
    • contributions to the Latin form of Christianity, 452-472;
    • see also Prayer and Sacrifice
  • Renan, cited, 185
  • Renel, M., cited, 26
  • Réville, M. Jean, on the formalism of the Roman religion, 3;
    • his definition of religion, 8
  • Rex Nemoreusis, 235
  • Ridgeway, Professor, on the Flamen Dialis, 112;
    • on Janus, 140;
    • on original inhabitants of Latium, 242, 393
  • Rivers, Dr., on the ritual aspect of religion among the Todas, 489-490
  • Robertson Smith, Professor, 19, 26, 27, 172, 221;
    • on the Feast of the Tabernacles, 476
  • Robigalia, 139, 196
  • Robigus, 100, 117, 122, 146, 179, 434;
    • Ovid's version of prayer to, 197
  • Roman Church, survival of old religious practices in the, 25, 211, 218, 456-458, 469
  • Romulus, 51, 130, 135
  • Roscher, Dr., 141
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  • Sacellum, meaning of, 146
  • Sacer and sacramentum, 36, 277, 464
  • Sacred utensils, worship of, 436, 489-490
  • Sacrifices, 29, 90, 224, 225;
  • Sacrificium, meaning of, 171, 464
  • Sacrum, 171, 254
  • Saeculum, the old Italian idea of a, 440
  • St. Augustine, cited, 58, 76, 120, 149, 159, 163, 297, 430, 458;
    • on Decius, 220
  • Sainte Beuve, on Virgil, 404
  • St. Paul, 455, 466-468
  • Salacia, 165;
    • connection with Neptunus, 483
  • Salii, 40, 96, 110, 132, 133, 143, 176, 182, 217, 229, 434;
  • Sallust, 405
  • Salt-cake, 73, 207
  • Salus, 154, 285
  • Sanctus, meaning of, 463-464, 470
  • Sarritor, 161
  • Saturnalia, 81, 99, 101-103, 107, 112
  • Saturnus, 101, 111, 118, 318;
    • identified with Kronos, 118;
    • connection with Consus, 482;
    • with Ops, 482
  • Sayce, Professor, 155
  • Scaevola, P. Mucius, 283
  • Scipio, the elder, 240, 247, 267, 340, 354;
    • receives the Magna Mater at Rome, 330
    • Aemilianus, 198, 203-204, 340;
    • his friendship with Polybius and Panaetius, 362-364, 369, 371
  • Scott, Sir Walter, compared with Virgil, 408
  • Sellar, Professor, on Virgil, 404, 406
  • Sementivae, festival, 79, 89
  • Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus, 347, 348, 356
  • Seneca, 369, 378, 438, 455
  • Septimontium, 110
  • Servius, cited, 58, 62, 119, 120, 134, 138, 142, 143, 146, 183, 184, 194, 210
    • Sulpicius, 371, 387
    • Tullius, 235;
    • his Etruscan name Mastarna, 237
  • Sibyl of Cumae, 257-258
  • Sibylline books, 173, 242, 255-257, 261, 323;
    • consulted during the Hannibalic war, 316-319, 329;
    • used for personal and political purposes, 339
  • Silvanus, 76, 81, 89, 132, 142
  • Slaves, 53, 78, 395, 401, 474;
    • Greek, buried alive in the Forum boarium, 112, 320
  • Sodales Titienses, 434
  • Sol, image of, on the Palatine, 445, 447, 450
  • Sondergötter, Usener's theory of, 161-164, 168
  • Spells, 48, 53, 57-59, 208, 221;
    • origin of prayer in, 185, 189
  • Spes, 285
  • Spirits, 34, 58;
  • Spolia opima, 138, 141, 288;
    • dedicated at temple of Jupiter Feretrius, 130, 433
  • Stanley, on religion and morality, 292
  • Statues and busts at Rome, first mention of, 340, 354;
    • see also Images
  • Stoicism, 359, 377, 381-383;
    • introduced into Rome, 362;
    • its influence on the Roman mind, 370-372, 404, 453;
    • weak points in Roman, 372-374;
    • failed to rouse an "enthusiasm of humanity," 375, 454
  • Stones: lapis manalis, 50;
    • silex, 130;
    • stone representing Magna Mater, 330;
    • see also Boundary stones
  • Strangers, fear of, 30-32
  • Stubbs, Bishop, 103
  • Subrincator, 161
  • Subterranean altar, black victims offered at, 440, 445
  • Suffimenta, 441, 442, 449
  • Sulpicius, consul 211 b.c., 337
  • Summanus, cult-title of Jupiter, 129
  • Suovetaurilia, 132, 212, 215
  • Superstitio, 106, 355, 361, 405;
    • temple of Isis condemned as a centre of, 433
  • Supplicatio, 262, 265, 269, 337;
  • Tabernacles, Feast of the, 475, 476 Taboo, 25, 83, 223;
    • definition of, 27;
    • its ethical value, 28;
    • on children, 28;
    • on women, 29;
    • on strangers, 30-32;
    • on criminals, 32;
    • on inanimate objects, 32;
    • on places, 36;
    • on times and seasons, 38-41;
    • on iron, 35, 44, 214;
    • on leather, 36;
    • on the Flamen Dialis, 33-35, 44, 45, 108, 109, 327, 342, 343;
    • on the Flaminica Dialis, 35
  • Tacitus, 398
  • Tarentum, sacrifices on subterranean altar, 440, 445
  • Tarquinii, the, 146, 237, 245
  • Tellus (Terra Mater), 100, 120, 122, 136, 138, 139, 156, 158, 161, 162, 320, 435, 442, 446;
    • an object of worship at marriage, 121;
    • connection with Jupiter, 121;
    • temple, 285
  • Tempestates, 285
  • Temples: absence of, in earliest Rome, 146;
  • Terminalia, 34, 193, 196
  • Terminus, 82, 117, 239
  • Terra Mater, see Tellus
  • Tertullian, cited, 159, 163, 459, 461, 465
  • Theodosian code, 430
  • Tiberius, 429, 438, 447
  • Tibicines, 180, 195, 233, 445
  • Tibullus, cited, 22, 80, 147, 178, 403;
    • on use of huts at rural festivals, 474
  • Time, religious or mystical conception of, 440-441, 449
  • Toga praetexta, worn by priests and children, 29, 42, 50, 61, 74, 84, 175-177, 194-195, 436
    • virilis, 42
  • Tombstones, memorial, first mention of, 341
  • Totemism, 25-27
  • Toutain, M., 26
  • Tozer, Mr., on Dante, 419
  • Trade: deities brought to Rome by, 230;
    • connection of Hercules with, 231;
    • gilds, 233
  • Trasimene, outbreak of religio after the battle of, 318
  • Treaties, Jupiter's connection with, 130
  • Tripodatio, 187, 198
  • Tubilustrium, 96, 217
  • Turiae, Laudatio, cited, 389
  • Turnus, 483
  • Tylor, Dr., 26, 49, 74, 293
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  • Usener, H., 19, 138, 160;
    • his theory of the Sondergötter, 161-164, 168
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  • Vacuna of Reate, 284, 290
  • Valerius Antias, 52, 115, 137
  • Varro, cited, 16, 59, 76, 79, 81, 89, 103, 120, 125, 142, 143, 149, 156, 159, 168, 210, 222, 235, 251, 321
  • Vates, meaning of, 297-298
  • Vedic ritual, 185
  • Vegetation-spirit, Mannhardt's theory, 19, 20, 478
  • Venilia, 483
  • Venus, connection with Volcanus, 166
  • Ver sacrum, 196, 204-205, 318
  • Verbenarius, 31, 43
  • Verrius Flaccus, 16, 30
  • Vertumnus, 147, 291;
    • connection with Pomona, 485;
    • temple, 285
  • Vervactor, 161
  • Vesta, 73, 74, 76, 92, 116, 126, 136, 137, 140, 147, 481;
  • Vestal virgins, 53, 113, 120, 139, 175, 177, 194, 320;
    • at the ceremony of the Argei, 54, 55, 106, 321;
    • salt-cake baked by, 73;
    • representative of daughters of the family, 136;
    • statues of, 144
  • Vicus, 71
  • Vilicus, 78
  • Vinalia, 100
  • Virgil, on religio, 37;
    • on the Paganalia, 62, 67;
    • on lustratio, 80, 213, 221;
    • on the Manes, 386, 399;
    • religious feeling in his poems, 403-427, 455;
    • compared with Wordsworth, 407-408; with Scott, 408;
    • his idea of pietas, 409;
    • his connection with Augustus, 428;
    • see also Aeneid
  • Virites, 150, 158
  • Virtus, 446
  • Volcanalia, 98, 101
  • Volcanus, 118, 122, 124;
    • connection with Maia, 151, 484;
    • with Venus, 166
  • Volturnus, 117, 118, 122, 124
  • Vortumnus, 165, 284
  • Vows, 188, 226, 286;
    • private, 201-202;
    • public, 200, 202-204;
    • extraordinary, 204-208;
    • see also Devotio and Evocatio
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  • Waltzing, on Roman trades, 233
  • Westcott, Bishop, on Augustine, 458
  • Westermarck, Dr., cited, 31, 44, 123, 179;
    • on magic, 47;
    • on religion of primitive man, 63, 394;
    • on Roman prayers, 185;
    • on religion and morality, 227
  • Williamowitz-Moellendorf, on Hercules, 243
  • Wine, used at sacrifices, 82, 180, 182-184;
    • as a substitute for blood, 196
  • Winter, J. G., cited, 243
  • Wissowa, Georg, cited, 13, 14, 16-18, 33, 36, 112, 122, 146, 193, 199, 319, 440;
    • on dies religiosi, 38-40;
    • on the Argei, 54, 55, 65, 111, 321, 322;
    • on the ritual of the Salii, 97;
    • his list of di indigetes, 117, 139;
    • on Faunus, 118;
    • on Janus, 126, 141;
    • on Mars, 142;
    • on the Indigitamenta, 159, 161-163, 168;
    • on cult of Jupiter, 167;
    • on prayer, 198;
    • on Hercules, 243;
    • on Hebe, 332;
    • on Carmen saeculare, 444, 450
  • Wolf's fat, used as a charm against evil spirits, 83, 90
  • Women, 264, 265;
    • taboo on, 29;
    • excluded from certain sacrificial rites, 29-30;
    • at the ceremony of the aquaelicium, 64;
    • rites to produce fertility, 54, 106, 143, 479;
    • oaths used by, 244;
    • excitement among, during Hannibalic war, 324;
    • rebellion against the ius divinum, 344;
    • festivals, 143, 346, 443, 450;
    • deities, 135, 235, 272, 297, 318, 332, 479
  • Wordsworth, compared with Virgil, 407
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  • Zeller, cited, 351, 356;
    • on human law and divine law, 371
  • Zeus, 367
  • Zosimus, cited, 309, 439, 449, 450