ed by Mommsen, _Roem.
Chronologie_, ed. 2, p. 172.

[933] See, _e.g._, _Golden Bough_, ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 70
foll.

[934] The religious or mystical conception of time is
the subject of an interesting discussion by Hubert et
Mauss, _Melanges d'histoire et de religion_, p. 189
foll.; but the _saeculum_ does not seem to have
attracted their attention.

[935] The actual words of Varro, from his work _de gente
Populi Romani_, are quoted by St. Augustine, _de Civ.
Dei_, xxii. 28: "Genethliaci quidam scripserunt esse in
renascendis hominibus quam appellant [Greek:
palingenesian] Graeci; hac scripserunt confici in annis
numero quadringentis quadraginta, ut idem corpus et
eadem anima, quae fuerint coniuncta in homine aliquando,
eadem rursus redeant in coniunctionem." The passage well
illustrates the mystical tendency of which I was
speaking in the last lecture.

[936] For attempts to explain the difficulty see
Wissowa, _op. cit._ p. 204.

[937] The cakes offered to Eilithyia, and again to
Apollo, are nine in number; see the inscription lines
117 and 143. The choirs of boys and girls were each
twenty-seven.

[938] The _suffimenta_ are described by Zosimus, _l.c._
There is a coin of Domitian, who also celebrated _Ludi
saeculares_, in which he appears seated and distributing
the _suffimenta_, as the inscription shows.

[939] So Zosimus, who says they consisted of wheat,
barley, and beans.

[940] _R.F._ p. 148 foll.

[941] See the inscription, line 92 foll. Ferrero assumes
that these words were to be taken as representing the
families of all worshippers present, who would repeat
the words "mihi domo familiae." But this is arbitrary;
the prayer follows the old form as we have it, _e.g._,
in Cato, _R.R._ (see above, p. 182), and as Cato or any
landowner would represent the rest of the human beings
on the estate, so did Augustus represent the whole
community.

[942] So J. B. Carter, _Religion of Numa_, p. 160.

[943] The matrons, equal in number to the years of the
_saeculum_, first appear on 2nd June in the worship of
Juno.

[944] _Mon. Ancyr._ (Lat.), iv. 21.

[945] Zosimus, _l.c._, says that "hymns" were sung in
Greek as well as Latin; but this is not borne out by any
other authority.

[946] Line 31 (_et Iovis aura