Valerius Maximus, iv. 4. 11; Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 310; Acron on Horace, _Odes_, i. 31, quoted by G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 179; Cicero, _Paradoxa_, i. 2; _id._, _De natura deorum_, iii. 17. 43; Persius, _Sat._ ii. 59 _sq._; Juvenal, _Sat._ vi. 342 _sqq._
Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Ant. Rom._ ii. 23. On earthenware vessels used in religious rites see also Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxxv. 108, “_In sacris quidem etiam inter has opes hodie non murrinis crystallinisve, sed fictilibus prolibatur simpulis_”; Apuleius, _De magia_, 18, “_Eadem paupertas etiam populo Romano imperium a primordio fundavit, proque eo in hodiernum diis immortalibus simpuvio et catino fictili sacrificat._”
G. Boni in _Notizie degli Scavi_, May 1900, p. 179; E. Burton-Brown, _Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum_, pp. 23 _sq._, 41.
W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, pp. 82 _sqq._
G. Henzen, _Acta Fratrum Arvalium_ (Berlin, 1874), pp. 26, 30; H. Dessau, _Inscriptiones Latinae selectae_, No. 5039; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., 456.
W. Helbig, _Die Italiker in der Poebene_, p. 87.
G. Wilmanns, _Exempla inscriptionum Latinarum_, Nos. 311, 986, 1326, 1331; H. Dessau, _Inscriptiones Latinae selectae_, Nos. 456, 3314, 4926, 4933, 4936, 4942, 4943. Modern writers, following Varro (_De lingua Latina_, vii. 44, “_fictores dicti a fingendis libis_”), explain these _fictores_ as bakers of sacred cakes. See Ch. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, pp. 1084 _sq._; J. Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, iii. 2nd Ed., 249. They may be right, but it is to be observed that Varro does not expressly refer to the _fictores_ of the Vestals and Pontiffs, and further, that in Latin _fictor_ commonly means a potter, not a baker, for which the regular word is _pistor_.
A. d’Orbigny, _Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale_, iii. (Paris and Strasburg, 1844) p. 194. Much of d’Orbigny’s valuable information as to this tribe was drawn from the manuscript of Father Lacueva, a Spanish Franciscan monk of wealthy family and saint-like character, who spent eighteen or twenty years among the Yuracares in a vain attempt to convert them. With regard to the crops mentioned in the text, these savages plant banana-trees, manioc, sugar-cane, and vegetables round about their huts, which they erect in clearings of the forest. See d’Orbigny, _op. cit._ iii. 196 _sq._