festivals or
the gods concerned in them, and his ideas as to the
agricultural features of the months July, August,
December seem to me doubtful; but the paper is one that
all students of the calendar must reckon with.

[199] Marquardt, _Privatleben_, pp. 459 and 569 foll.

[200] For the festivals mentioned in the following
paragraphs see _R.F._, _s.v._, and Wissowa, _R.K._,
section 63.

[201] "St. George and the Parilia," in _Revue des etudes
ethnographiques et sociologiques_ for Jan. 1908. I owe
my knowledge of this admirable study to the kindness of
its author.

[202] Frazer, _G.B._ ii. 318 foll.

[203] Varro, _L.L._ v. 64, says, "Ab _satu_ dictus
Saturnus." And in Augustine (_Civ. Dei_, vi. 8) he is
quoted as holding the opinion "quod pertineat Saturnus
ad semina, quae in terram de qua oriuntur iterum
recidunt." He was probably the _numen_ of the
seed-sowing (Saeturnus), and as his festival comes
after the end of sowing, we may presume that he was the
_numen_ of the sown as well as of the unsown seed. In
the article "Saturnus" in Roscher's _Lexicon_, which has
appeared since the above note was written, Wissowa
provisionally accepts Varro's etymology.

[204] Festus, p. 245a, "Publica sacra quae publico
sumptu pro populo fiunt, quaeque pro montibus, pagis,
curiis, sacellis." See article "Sacra" in _Dict. of
Antiqq._ ii. 577.

[205] "Routine is the only safeguard of a people under a
perfect autocracy" (_Select Charters_, Introduction, p.
19).

[206] The annalists believed that the publication first
took place in the year 304 B.C.: Livy ix. 46. Mommsen
(_Chronologie_, p. 31) thought it possible that it had
already been done by the Decemvirs in one of the two
last of the XII. Tables, but again withdrawn. The object
of keeping the Fasti secret was, of course, to control
the times available for legal and political business.

[207] This paragraph is abridged from a passage in the
author's paper in the _Hibbert Journal_ for 1907, p.
848.

[208] See _Anthropology and the Classics_ (Oxford,
1908), p. 44.

[209] _R.F._ p. 241 foll.

[210] Wissowa holds that it dates from the third century
B.C.: Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encycl._, _s.v._ "Argei." I
endeavoured to refute this view in the _Classical
Review_ for 1902, p. 115 f