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If the Roman religion could be revived these were the proper means to do it. But the religion of the future was not to be prepared in this way. The sections on religion in Mommsen's History of Rome. Ramsay's Roman Antiquities. Wissowa, Religion und Cultur der Römer. Holwerda, in De la Saussaye. For the period of the Empire, Boissier's La Religion Romaine.
Tro. 989. ἧλθεν δὲ δαὶς θάλεια πρεσβίστη θεῶν. Soph. Fr. 548. See also Pauly Wissowa, s.v. Icaro-Menippos 24 schol. ad loc. Sylloge 628, Ar. Thesm. 84, 296 et passim. The plural αἱ Θεσμοφόροι used in late Greek is not, as one might imagine, a projection from the whole band of worshippers; it is merely due to the disappearance of the dual from Greek.
A very curious feature of the ritual was the fastening of fire-brands to the tails of foxes, which were then let loose in what was afterwards the Circus Maximus: a symbol possibly, as Wissowa thinks, of sunlight, possibly of the vegetation-spirit. But the most important of the April ceremonies is undoubtedly the Parilia of the 21st, the festival of the very ancient rustic numen, Pales.
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