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II.
We must now consider two passages of vital importance in
determining the scene of the sacrifice. Festus (p. 290, Miiller's
edition) and Varro (L. L., V, 47) both say that the procession
of priests passed along the Sacra Via in this festival. Festus'
words are:
"Sacram viam quidam appellatam esse existimant. .quod eo
itinere utantur sacerdotes idulium sacrorum conficiendorum
causa. itaque ne eatenus quidem, ut vulgus opinatur, sacra appe1landa
est a regia ad domum Regis sacrificuli, sed etiam a Regis
domo ad sacellum Streniae, et rusus a regia usque in arcem."
"Some persons believe that the Sacred Way is so called because
the priests use that street in performing the sacra Idulia. Therefore,
it must be named Sacra, not only, as is commonly supposed,
from the Regia, to the house of the Rc% Sacrificulus, but likewise
from the house of the Rc% to the shrine of Strenia, and back
from the Regia all the way to the Arx."
The use of itaquc, meaning "therefore," as well as the statement
which it introduces, show that Festus means that the procession
passed along the entire length of the Sacra Via and that
thus the name should be applied to the whole street from the
sacellum of Strenia near the Colosseum and the Carinae, which
lay south of the modern Via Cavour along the Via dei Serpenti,
as far as the Arx. 31 Varro says:
"Carinae postea cerionia, quod hinc oritur caput sacrae viae
ab Streniae sacello quae pertinet in arce (m) qua sacra quotquot
mensibus feruntur in arcem et per quam augures ex arce profecti
solent inaugurare."
"Carinae afterwards cerionia (the spelling is corrupt), because
at this point the Sacred Way begins, from the shrine of Strenia,
.. See Jordan 1,3, pp. 258-259, 262-263, and maps; Kiepert and Huelsen,
Forma Urbis Ramat Antiquat, 2nd. ed. maps.
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