doubt about _ius._ In _Tab. Iguv._ vi. A. 28
(_Umbrica_, p. 58) Buecheler translates the Umbrian
_persei mersei_ by "quicquid ius sit," and compares this
passage of Cato, together with Gellius i. 12. 14, where
the phrase is used of the duties of a Vestal under the
_ius divinum_ in the formula used by the Pontifex
Maximus, _cum virginem capiat_: "Sacerdotem Vestalem,
quae sacra faciat, quae ius siet sacerdotem Vestalem
facere pro pop. Rom." etc.

[342] _e.g._ _Aen._ iv. 56, x. 31 ("si sine pace tua
atque invito numine," etc.). Cp. _Tab. Iguv._ vi. 30,
33, etc. (_Umbrica_, p. 59), "esto volens propitiusque
pace tua arci Fisiae."

[343] Livy vi. 41 _ad fin._

[344] Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 318, and p. 319 for the
illustrations that follow. Cp. Cicero, _Part. Or._ xxii.
78, where _religio_ is explained as "iustitia erga
deos."

[345] _Lex Coloniae Genetivae_, cap. 64; _C.I.L._ ii.,
supplement No. 5439.

[346] Livy i. 20. 5.

[347] This follows from the definition in Festus, p.
321, and in Macrobius iii. 3. 2. This last is quoted
from Trebatius _de religionibus_: "sacrum est quicquid
est quod deorum habetur." In common use _sacrificium_
seems to be reserved for animal sacrifice, but the verb
_sacrificare_ is not so limited. Festus, p. 319: "mustum
quod Libero sacrificabant pro vineis ... sicut
praemetium de spicis, quas primum messuissent,
sacrificabant Cereri." It has been suggested to me by
Mr. Marett that the termination of the word
_sacrificium_ may have reference to the use of _facere_
for animal sacrifice, as in Greek [Greek: rhezein,
erdein, dran]; but on the whole I doubt this. _Facere_
and _fieri_ are in that sense, I think, euphemisms,
occasioned by the mystic character of the act (examples
are collected in Brissonius _de formulis_, p. 9). _Rem
divinam facere_ seems to be the general expression, as
in Cato, _R.R._ 83; or the particular victim is in the
ablative, _e.g. agna Iovi facit_ (Flamen Dialis) in
Varro, _L.L._ vi. 16; cp. Virg. _Ecl._ iii. 77.

[348] This classification, originally due to R. Smith,
article "Sacrifice" in _Encycl. Brit._, ed. 10, has
lately been criticised by Hubert et Mauss, in _Melanges
d'histoire des religions_, p. 9 foll.; but it is
sufficiently complete for our purposes. At the same time
it is we