xxxiii. 84, mentions cases of
such potency as medicine, and among them its application
to children who have been poisoned.

[122] Pliny, _N.H._ xxviii. 39.

[123] See an article by the author on the original
meaning of the _toga praetexta_ in _Classical Review_,
vol. x. (1896) p. 317.

[124] For the Compitalia, Macrob. i. 7. 34; Festus p.
238. For the Paganalia, Probus, _ad Georg._ ii. 385,
assuming the _feriae Sementinae_ there mentioned to be
the Paganalia (see _R.F._ p. 294). For the _feriae
Latinae_, Festus, _s.v._ "oscillantes."

[125] Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 193, with whose view I entirely
agree. We learn of the imaginary goddess from Varro,
_L.L._ ix. 61. Pais, I may remark in passing, is certain
that Acca Larentia was the mater Larum; see his
_Lectures on Ancient Legends of Roman History_, p. 60
foll.

[126] 46. Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 354, note 5.

[127] _Georg._ ii. 380 foll. It is not certain that
Virgil is describing the festival generally known as
Paganalia, which took place early in January; but it
seems probable from line 382 that he is thinking of some
festival of the pagus. The _oscilla_ may have been used
at more than one.

[128] Note that Virgil writes of masks used in rude
play-acting, as well as of _oscilla_ hung on trees, and
conjoins the two as though they had something in common.
The evidence of an engraved onyx cup in the Louvre, of
which a cut is given in the article "Oscilla" in the
_Dict. of Antiquities_, seems to make it probable that
masks worn by rustics on these occasions were afterwards
hung by them on trees as _oscilla_. Some of these masks
on the cup are adorned with horns, which may explain an
interesting passage of Apuleius (_Florida_, i. 1):
"neque enim iustius religiosam moram viatori obiecerit
aut ara floribus redimita ... aut quercus cornibus
onerata, aut fagus pellibus coronata," etc. See also
_Gromatici veteres_, ii. 241.

[129] See, however, Dr. Frazer's remarks in _G.B._ ii.
p. 454. He thinks that the air might in this way be
purged of vagrant spirits or baleful ghosts, as the
Malay medicine man swings in front of the patient's
house in order to chase away the disease. Cp. _G.B._ ii.
343, where a rather different explanation is attempted
of the _maniae_ and _pilae_.

[130] Magic in the