[31] Crawley, _op. cit._ p. 436; Frazer, _G.B._ i. 403 foll. From this point of view Roman names need a closer examination than they have yet received. See, however, Marquardt, _Privatleben der Römer_, pp. 10 and 81, and Mommsen, _Röm. Forschungen_, i. 1 foll. Marquardt must be wrong in stating (p. 10) that only the _praenomen_ was given on the _dies lustricus_; children dying before that day usually, as he says on p. 82 note, have no name in inscriptions, and that ceremony must surely have introduced the child to the gens of its parents. Certainly that introduction had not to wait till the _toga virilis_ was taken; though Tertull. _de Idol._ 16 looks at first a little like it. The same statement is made in the _Dict. of Antiq., s.v._ "nomen." Macr. _Sat._ i. 16. 36, and Fest. 120, simply speak of _nomen_.

[32] Fowler, _R.F._ p. 56; De Marchi, _op. cit._ p. 176. For the primitive ideas about puberty, Crawley, _Mystic Rose_, ch. xiii. The idea of the Romans seems to have been simply that the child, who had so far needed special protection from evil influences (of what kind in particular it is impossible to say) by purple-striped toga and amulet (see below, p. 60), was now entering a stage when these were no longer needed. All notions of taboo seem to have vanished.

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[33] Marquardt, _Privataltertümer_, p. 337 foll.

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[34] Serv. _Aen._ ii. 714, and especially iii. 64. Other references in Marq. _op. cit._ p. 338, note 5, and De Marchi, _La Religione nella_ _vita domestica_, p. 190. For similar usages of prohibition see van Gennep, _op. cit._ ch. ii.

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[35] Festus, p. 3, "itaque funus prosecuti redeuntes ignem supragradiebantur aqua aspersi, quod purgationis genus vocabant suffitionem." For the possibly magic influence of these elements, see Jevons, _op. cit._ p. 70.

[36] Frazer, _G.B._ i. 325, iii. 222 foll.; Jevons, p. 59.

[37] Cato, _R.R._ 83, "mulier ad eam rem divinam ne adsit neve videat quomodo fiat."

[38] Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 60. Dogs were also excluded (_ib._ 90); Gellius xi. 6. 2; Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 227; Fowler, _R.F._ p. 194, where the private and public taboos are compared.

[39] Festus, _s.v._ "exesto." For similar taboos in Greece, Farnell in _Archiv_ for 1904, p. 76.