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592 DARKNESS AND DAWN
NOTE 32. PAGE 213.
An imperial banquet. See Sen. Ep. xc. 15, czv. 9. The menu
of a banquet of luxurious Salian priests is preserved in Macrobius,
Saturn, iii. 13.
NOTE 33. PAGE 273.
The classical reader will recognise that I have not invented these
They are found in Apuleius.
stories of rural pagan life.
NOTE 34. PAGE 318.
The Lemuralia. See this expiatory rite described in Ovid, Fasti,
v. 421-444; and compare Latour St.-Ybars, Ne'ron, pp. 213, 214. The
custom is also alluded to in Varro, Vit. Pop. Rom. Fr. 241 Servius ad
;
jEn. i. 276.
NOTE 35. PAGE 323.
Gladiators' School.
'
Alebat devotum omni fauce
sagina.' Quinct. Qui dabit
corpus
immundse
pravior
venalia fata saginse.'
'
Propert. iv. 8. 25. Aei erf ei, avayKO(paytlv, airf^frQai 7rep.fJ.dTa>i>,
fir} tyvxpbv irivfiv. Epict. Dissert, iii. 15, 3.
NOTE 36. PAGE 325.
The gladiator's oath was comprehensively horrible.
'
In
verba
Euinolpi sacramentum juravimus uri, vinciri, verberari, ferroque
necari, et quicquid aliud Eumolpus jussisset ;
tamquam legilimi
gladiatoreS domino corpora animosque reliyiosissime addicimus.'
Petronius.
NOTE 37. PAGE 330.
Gladiatorial games. Not one incident is here described which does
not find its authority in Martial De Spectaculis, and other epigrams, or
in one or other of the many contemporary or later writers of the Empire.
See Lipsius, De Gladiatoribus in his Saturnalia.
NOTE 38. PAGE 334.
Dead gladiators. Quinetiam percussos jacentesque repeti jubent,
'
et cadavera ictibus dissipari, ne quis illos simulata morte deludat '
(Lactantius).
NOTE 39. PAGE 351.
The Rex Nemorensis. See Ovid, Fasti, iii. 263-277 ; Propert. iii.
24. 9; Stat. Sylv. iii. 1. 32 ;
and Mr. Eraser's Golden Bough.
The appearance and cautious terror of the priest are described by
Strabo (v.
3. 12) : i-xpriprjs ovv fcrnv, del TrfpKTKonwv, ras