._ i. 302. It was on this
occasion that _maniae_ and _pilae_ were hung on the
house and compitum ("pro foribus," Macr. i. 7. 35); see
above, p. 61. For the _religio Larium_, Cic. _de Legg._,
ii. 19 and 27. That the Compitalia was an old Latin
festival is undoubted; but as we are uncertain about the
exact nature of the earliest form of landholding, we
cannot be sure about the nature of the compita in remote
antiquity. The passage from the _Gromatici_ (Dolabella),
quoted above, refers to the _fines templares_ of
_possessiones_, _i.e._ the boundaries marked by these
chapels in estates of later times. See Rudorff in vol.
ii. p. 263; Wissowa in Pauly-Wissowa, _s.v._ "Compitum."

[165] Varro, _L.L._ vi. 26. I have discussed this
passage in _R.F._ p. 294; it is still not clear to me
whether Varro is identifying his Paganicae with the
Sementivae, but on the whole I think he uses the latter
word of a city rite (_dies a pontificibus dictus_), and
the former of the country festivals of the same kind.

[166] _Fasti_, i. 663.

[167] _Cl. Rev._, 1908, p. 36 foll.

[168] _Georg._ i. 338 foll.

[169] See my discussion of Faunus in _R.F._ p. 258 foll.
I am still unable to agree with Wissowa in his view of
Faunus (_R.K._ p. 172 foll.). I may here mention a
passage of the gromatic writer Dolabella (_Gromatici_,
i. 302), in which he says that there were three Silvani
to each _possessio_ or large estate of later times: "S.
domesticus, possessioni consecratus: alter agrestis,
pastoribus consecratus: tertius orientalis, cui est in
confinio lucus positus, a quo inter duo pluresque fines
oriuntur." Faunus never became domesticated, but he
belongs to the same type as Silvanus. Von Domaszewski,
in his recently published _Abhandlungen zur roem.
Religion_, p. 61, discredits the passage about the three
Silvani, following a paper of Mommsen. But his whole
interesting discussion of Silvanus shows well how many
different forms that curious semi-deity could take.

[170] _Odes_, iii. 18.

[171] Cic. _de Inventione_, ii. 161.

[172] pp. 236-284.

[173] _R.F._ 325, condensed from Siculus Flaccus
(_Gromatici_, i. 141).

[174] _Fasti_, ii. 641 foll.

[175] See, _e.g._, Jevons, _Introduction_, etc., p. 138;
Robertson Smith, _Semites_, p. 321.

[176] See, _e.