formed part of that experience. But I think I have sufficiently proved
that the life has gone out of the ideas, and that the worship has
consequently become meaningless. Ideas about the divine may be discussed
by philosophers as the Romans begin to read and in some degree to think;
and the outward forms of the cult may be maintained in such particulars
as most closely concern the public life of the community; but as a
religious system expressing human experience we have done with these
things.

NOTES TO LECTURE XV

[706] Polybius vi. 56.

[707] Livy xxxi. 4 _ad fin._, cp. xxv. 2, xxvii. 36,
etc. For the _Iovis epulum_ see _R.F._ 216 foll. and the
references there given. Wissowa, _R.K._ foll. 111. 385
foll. I am not sure that I am right in limiting the
human partakers of the epulum of Nov. 13 to the plebeian
magistrates.

[708] Livy xxxi. 5. The importance of the words
"prolationem finium" does not seem to have been noticed
by historians. If they are genuine they indicate an
undoubtedly aggressive attitude.

[709] Livy xxxi. 7 and 8.

[710] Livy xxxvi. 1.

[711] Augustine, _Civ. Dei_, iv. 27: "Relatum est in
litteras doctissimum pontificem Scaevolam disputasse
tria genera tradita deorum: unum a poetis, alterum a
philosophis, tertium a principibus civitatis. Primum
genus nugatorium dicit esse, quod multa de diis
fingantur indigna, etc. Expedire igitur falli in
religione civitates."

[712] Livy xxxii. 9, cp. 28. In connection with these
_prodigia_ it may be worth noting that in xxxii. 30 we
are told that a consul vowed a temple to Juno Sospita,
who had in her famous seat at Lanuvium been a constant
centre of marvel-mongering. Livy xxxiv. 53 places the
building of this temple _in foro olitorio_ three years
later, if we may read there Sospitae instead of the
Matutae of the MSS. with Sigonius: (cp. Aust, _de
Aedibus_, p. 21, and Wissowa, _R.K._ 117). This
interesting deity had been taken into the Roman worship
in 338 B.C., but not moved from Lanuvium, which had
peculiar religious relations with Rome. See _Myth. Lex._
vol. ii. p. 608, where the attributes of this Juno in
art are described by Vogel. The date of the temple at
Rome was 194. Whether the object of it was to diminish
the portents at Lanuvium it is impossible to say, but
judging from the records of