Ovid, _Fasti_, 6. 209. See _Commentarii in honorem Th. Mommseni_, 262 foll. (Klügmann), and R. Peter in _Lex._ s. v. Herc. p. 2979.
4. 58: cp. Liv. 8. 20; Aust, _de Aedibus sacris_, p. 51. Of the porta Sanqualis I shall have a word to say presently.
Mr. Lang (_Myth, Ritual_, &c., ii. 191) has some excellent remarks on this subject.
See Wordsworth’s _Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_, p. 157 ‘Semunes alternos advocapit cunctos.’ I follow Jordan’s explanation of ‘Semunes,’ in _Krit. Beiträge_, 204 foll.
Aelius Dium Fidium dicebat Diovis filium, ut Graeci Διόσκορον Castorem, et putabat hunc esse Sancum ab Sabina lingua et Herculem a Graeca’ (Varro, _L. L._ 5. 66).
Festus, 241. This is probably the _sacellum_ of Livy, 8. 22.
_C. I. L._ vi. 568: again (ib. 567), ‘Semoni Sanco deo fidio.’ Sancus is, of course, a name, not an adjective: we find Sangus in some MSS. of Livy, 32. 1. For the well-known curious confusion with Simon Magus, Euseb. _H. E._ 2. 13.
Bréal, _Tables Eugubines_, 71; Bücheler, _Umbrica_, 65 foll. As Preller remarks, Fisus stands to Fidius as Clausus to Claudius (ii. 271). At Iguvium there was a hill, important in the rites, which bore this name—_ocris fisius_.
Aelius Stilo ap. Varro, l. c.; Ovid, l. c.; Propert. 4. 9. 74; Lactantius, 1. 15. 8; Schwegler, _R. G._ i. 364; Preller, ii. 272; O. Gilbert, i. 275, note; Ambrosch, _Studien_, 170. Jordan, however, in a note on Preller (273) emphatically says that the Sabine origin of the god is a fable; and for the illusory distinction between Latins and Sabines in Rome see Mommsen, _R. H._ i. 67, note, and Bréal, _Hercule et Cacus_, p. 56. Sancus was no doubt a Sabine deity and reputed ancestor of the race (Cato ap. Dionys. 2. 49: cp. 4. 58); but it does not follow that he came to Rome as a Sabine importation.
Varro, _L. L._ 5. 66; Festus, 229 (Propter viam); and Paulus, 147 (medius fidius).
Cp. Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 28 (‘Why are boys made to go out of the house when they wish to swear by Hercules?‘) with Varro, ap. Nonium, s. v. _rituis_, and _L. L._ 5. 66.
See below on Sept. 13, p. 231. The silex was taken out of the temple of Jupiter Feretrius (Paulus, 92).
Eustath. ad _Od._ 22. 335; Hermann, _Gr. Ant._ ii. 74. Cp. A. Lang, _Myth_, &c. ii. 54: ‘the sky hears us,’ said the Indian when taking an oath.