^{page 391 note a} Liv. i. 20.

^{page 391 note b} Dionys. i. 67.

^{page 391 note c} Numa, 10.

^{page 391 note d} Aul. Gell. i. 12, 1; and Suet. Aug. 31.

^{page 392 note a} See Tac. Ann. ii. 86.

^{page 392 note b} Liv. i. 20 and Tac. Ann. iv. 16.

^{page 392 note c} c Aul. Gell. i. 12, 9.

^{page 392 note d} Tac. Ann. xi. 34.

^{page 392 note e} Tac. Ann. iv. 16; Suet. Aug. 44.

^{page 392 note f} Cor. In. Lat. i. p. 121.

^{page 392 note g} Plut. Numa, 10.

^{page 392 note h} Cor. In Lat. vi. 2147. This is the same lady to whom six of the pedestals mentioned below are inscribed.

^{page 392 note i} See inscription ofAncyra, Res gestae Augusti, ed. Mommsen, , Berlin, 1883Google Scholar.

^{page 393 note a} Aul. Gell. i. 12, 14, and 19.

^{page 393 note b} Cor. Li. Lat. vi. 2145.

^{page 393 note c} See Festus, ed. Muller, p. 106. Compare the myth of Prometheus, who first brought fire to mortals concealed in a stick.

^{page 393 note d} , Pliny, H. N. xvi. 4Google Scholar.

^{page 393 note e} Liv. xxvi. 27.

^{page 393 note f} ii. 66.

^{page 393 note g} Phil. xi. 10, 24.

^{page 393 note h} See also Dionys. i. 67; Plut. Gamil. 20; and Ovid, Trist. iii. 1, 29, Hie locus est vestae qui Pallada servat et ignem.

^{page 394 note a} a Liv. v. 40.

^{page 394 note b} , Varro, Lin. Lat. v. 32Google Scholar.

^{page 394 note c} i. 14, 4.

^{page 394 note d} This gate has recently been discovered and destroyed together with a long piece of the Servian wall. Its site was under the new Ministero delle Finanze on the Esquiline.

^{page 394 note e} Liv. viii. 15.

^{page 394 note f} Ep. iv. 11.

^{page 395 note a} In almost every known case the Vestal was convicted on the evidence of slaves, which, according to Roman law, could only be given under torture; thus an innocent Vestal may have been found guilty in many instances.

^{page 395 note b} This primitive hut is represented in that widely-found form of cinerary urn which is modelled to represent a clay and wattled house, and has a moveable door fixed with a peg; see, Virchow, Der iialischen und deutschen Haus-urnen, Berlin, 1884Google Scholar.

^{page 395 note c} Ov. Fast. vi. 261 and 284.

^{page 395 note d} The word templum was used in a wide sense, meaning any structure which had received the inauguratio: thus purely secular buildings, such as the Rostra, the Comitittm, or even theatres, were templa in the strict sense of the word.

^{page 395 note e} Dionys. ii. 66; Plut. Numa, ii.; and cf. , Serviusad Aen. vii. 153Google Scholar.

^{page 395 note f} Liv. v. 40.

^{page 395 note g} Dionys. ii. 66.

^{page 395 note h} h Tac. Ann. xv. 41, and Suet. Nero, 38.

^{page 395 note i} Herodian, i. 14.

^{page 396 note a} Other very similar circular temples are that in the Forum Boarium by the Tiber, formerly thought to be the Temple of Vesta, the one at Tivoli, and the so-called “Tomb of St. Luke” at Ephesus, of which only fragments remain.

^{page 396 note b} Cohen, iii. p. 303.

^{page 396 note c} The same reverse occurs on a large bronze medallion of Lucilla; see, Grueber, Eoman Medallions, 1874, pl. xxvi. 3Google Scholar.

^{page 396 note d} Fast. vi. 297.

Three bronze medallions of Faustina, Sen. have reverses with scenes of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins. , Froehner, Les Médallions de l'Empire Romain, Paris, 1878, pp. 76–7Google Scholar.

^{page 398 note a} Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 7.

^{page 398 note b} A valuable account of this Temple and its adjacent buildings is given by, Lanciani, Atrio di Vesta, Rome, 1884Google Scholar.

^{page 398 note c} Plut. Numa, 14; see also Dionys. liv. 27; Suet. Gaes. 46; and Servius ad Aen. viii. 363.

^{page 398 note d} Trist. in. i. 28.

^{page 398 note *} The Society is indebted to Messrs. A. and C. Black for the loan of this illustration.

^{page 399 note a} Dionys. Ivi. 27.

^{page 399 note b} Aul. Gel. iv. 6.

^{page 399 note c} , Varro, Lin. Lat. vi. 21Google Scholar.

^{page 401 note a} For an account of Julius Csesar's residence in it as chief Pontiff see Suet. Gaes. 46, and, Plut. Cœs. 10Google Scholar.

^{page 401 note b} Cf. Cic. ad Att. x. 3

^{page 402 note a} Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 24.

^{page 403 note a} , Statius, sylv. i. 5, 36Google Scholar.

^{page 403 note b} Sylv. i. 5, 34.

^{page 403 note c} Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 12.

^{page 407 note a} Zosimus (v. 38) speaks of the last surviving Vestal being an old woman in 394 A.D.

^{page 408 note a} The lower part of the figure shows the upper surface of the frieze, with its holes for iron dowels and channels for running in melted lead to fix them. The “mitre-joint” at each end of the block received the side-blocks of the entablature of this little shrine, the junction coming over the column at each angle.

^{page 410 note a} “Suffibulum est vestimentum album oblongum quod in capite Virgines Vestales cum sacrificant semper habere solent, idque fibula comprehendebatur.” Festus, Ed. Müller, p. 348. According to Varro, Lin. Lat. iv. 21, it was also worn by the Rex Sacrificulus when he entered the Shrine of the Dea Opsconsiva.

^{page 413 note a} Ep. i. vi. 50.

^{page 414 note a} Hist. iv. 42.

^{page 414 note b} Cf. Cor. In. Lat. vi. 2129.

^{page 414 note c} Auro, argento, aere,flando feriundo.

^{page 417 note a} See Orelli and Henzen, Inscrip. Lat. Coll. 3100, 6785, and Cor. In. Lot. vi. 3557, 3558.

^{page 420 note a} Peristeph. Hymn. 2.