[Footnote 446: Hor. _Sat_. i. 4. 86; cp. Cic. _in Pisonem_, 27. 67.]
[Footnote 447: Cic. _de Senect_. 14. 46.]
[Footnote 448: Lucilius, fragm. 30; 120 foll.; 168, 327 etc. Varro wrote a Menippean satire on gluttony, of which a fragment is preserved by Gellius, vi. 16.]
[Footnote 449: See the interesting passage in _Cic. pro Murena_, 36. 75, about the funeral feast of Scipio Aemilianus.]
[Footnote 450: Catull. 47. 5: "vos convivia lauta sumptuose De die facitis?"]
[Footnote 451: 26. 65 foll; Hor. _Od_. iii. 19, and the commentators.]
[Footnote 452: _ad Fam_. vii. 26, of the year 57 B.C. The sumptuary law must have been a certain lex Aemilia of later date than Sulla. (See Gell. ii. 24: "qua lege non sumptus cenarum, sed ciborum genus et modus praefinitus est.") This chapter of Gellius, and Macrob. iii. 17, are the safest passages to consult on the subject of the growth of gourmandism.]
[Footnote 453: See Munro, _Elucidations of Catullus_, p. 92 foll.]
[Footnote 454: Tibull. ii. 1. 51 foll. Cp. ii. 5. 83 foll. Several are also described by Ovid in his _Fasti_. A charming account of feste in a Tuscan village of to-day will be found in _A Nook in the Apennines_, by Leader Scott, chapters xxviii. and xxix.: a book full of value for Italian rural life, ancient and modern.]
[Footnote 455: Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus_, p. 366. "Feriae" came in time to be limited to public festivals, while "festus dies" covered all holidays.]
[Footnote 456: de Legibus, ii. 8. 19: cp. 12. 29.]
[Footnote 457: Georg. i. 268 foll. Cato had already said the same thing: _R.R._ ii. 4.]
[Footnote 458: Thus Ovid describes the rites performed by the Flamen Quirinalis at the old agricultural festival of the Robigalia (Robigus, deity of the mildew) as if it were a curious bit of old practice which most people knew nothing about.--_Fasti_, iv. 901 foll.]
[Footnote 459: Greenidge, _Legal Procedure in Cicero's time_, p. 457.]
[Footnote 460: It is the same word as our _fair_.]
[Footnote 461: _Fasti_, iii. 523 foll.; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 51.]
[Footnote 462: _Roman Festivals_, p. 185. The custom doubtless had a religious origin.]
[Footnote 463: _Ib_. p. 268. Augustus limited the days to three.]
[Footnote 464: Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus_, p. 170. The cult of Saturn was largely affected by Greek usage, but this particular custom was more likely descended from the usage of the Latin farm.]
