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The City of God, Volume I. Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
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Fugalia. Vives is uncertain to what feast Augustine refers. Censorinus understands him to refer to a feast celebrating the expulsion of the kings from Rome. This feast, however (celebrated on the 24th February), was commonly called "Regifugium."
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Persius,
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See below, books viii. – xii.
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"Galli," the castrated priests of Cybele, who were named after the river Gallus, in Phrygia, the water of which was supposed to intoxicate or madden those who drank it. According to Vitruvius (viii. 3), there was a similar fountain in Paphlagonia. Apuleius (
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Persius,
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Ter.
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This sentence recalls Augustine's own experience as a boy, which he bewails in his
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Labeo, a jurist of the time of Augustus, learned in law and antiquities, and the author of several works much prized by his own and some succeeding ages. The two articles in Smith's Dictionary on Antistius and Cornelius Labeo should be read.
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"Lectisternia," feasts in which the images of the gods were laid on pillows in the streets, and all kinds of food set before them.
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According to Livy (vii. 2), theatrical exhibitions were introduced in the year 392 a. u. c. Before that time, he says, there had only been the games of the circus. The Romans sent to Etruria for players, who were called "histriones," "hister" being the Tuscan word for a player. Other particulars are added by Livy.
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See the
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Comp. Tertullian,
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The Egyptian gods represented with dogs' heads, called by Lucan (viii. 832)
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The Fever had, according to Vives, three altars in Rome. See Cicero,
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Cicero,
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In the year a. u. 299, three ambassadors were sent from Rome to Athens to copy Solon's laws, and acquire information about the institutions of Greece. On their return the Decemviri were appointed to draw up a code; and finally, after some tragic interruptions, the celebrated Twelve Tables were accepted as the fundamental statutes of Roman law (
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Possibly he refers to Plautus'
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Sallust,
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The same collocation of words is used by Cicero with reference to the well-known mode of renewing the appetite in use among the Romans.
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2 Cor. xi. 14.
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Cicero,
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Cicero,
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Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days.
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Virgil,
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Compare Aug.
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Ch. iv.
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Virg.
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Gratis et ingratis.
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Helen's husband.
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Venus' husband.
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Suetonius, in his
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Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian,
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The gates of Janus were not the gates of a temple, but the gates of a passage called Janus, which was used only for military purposes; shut therefore in peace, open in war.
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The year of the Consuls T. Manlius and C. Atilius, a. u. c. 519.
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Sall.
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Sall.
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Livy, x. 47.
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Being son of Apollo.
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Virgil,
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"But when Anchises' son surveyed
The fair, fair face so ghastly made,
He groaned, by tenderness unmanned,
And stretched the sympathizing hand," etc.
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Virgil,
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Sallust,
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Ps. x. 3.
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Cicero,
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His nephew.
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Lectisternia, from
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