^{page 115 note 1} The references will be found in fall in Wissowa's article, and the most important in my Roman Festivals, p. III foll.

^{page 116 note 1} He holds with Diels (Sibyllinische Blätter, p. 42 foll.) that the number 27 should be accepted as having special religious significance at Rome as well as in Greece and elsewhere.

^{page 116 note 2} The inverted commas are Wissowa's, and speak his well-known contempt for the species.

^{page 117 note 1} After a fresh reading of his chapters 45–46, I am inclined to think that Varro here uses partes of four districts of the city before they became technically organised as regiones. ‘E quis (partibus) prima est scripta regio Suburana,’ &c, he adds.

^{page 118 note 1} ‘Sunt enim loca publica urbis, sunt sacella, quae post restitutam tribunieiam potestatem nemo attigit, quae majores in urbe partim periculi perfugia esse voluerunt. Haec lege tribunicia Xviri vendunt.’ I know of no clue to the identification of the sacella here mentioned.

^{page 118 note 2} This exception he has tried to explain in his work de Feriis, ix. foil. See my Roman Festivals, p. 44.