e looked across to the
Palatine, and the image of Sol and his _quadriga_ must have been in full
view; thus the _exordium_ and the next stanza (alme Sol) would be sung
looking in that direction. Equally well in view, if they turned to the
right, would be the scene of the midnight sacrifices across the Campus
Martius; and so on throughout the singing the changes of position would
be easy and graceful, here as on the Palatine.

Here I prefer to make an end of the performance, following the text of
the inscription, which tells us nothing of a return to the Palatine. It
would be far more in keeping with Roman practice that the Capitol should
be the scene of the conclusion of the processional ceremony, even on a
day when Apollo was, with Augustus himself, the principal figure. From
the musical point of view, too, a third performance is improbable, for
the singers were young and tender.

And here, too, with this impressive scene, which can hardly fail to move
the imagination of any one who has stood on Palatine and Capitol, I will
close my account of the religious experience of the Romans. A few
remarks only remain for me to make about its contribution, such as it
was, to the Latin form of Christianity.

NOTES TO LECTURE XIX

[900] A summary of the relations between Virgil and
Augustus may be found in Mr. Glover's _Studies in
Virgil_, p. 144 foll.

[901] Tiberius added to his Augustan inheritance a
curious and possibly morbid anxiety about religious
matters and details of cult, of which examples may be
found in Tac. _Ann._ iii. 58, vi. 12, among other
passages. Perhaps, however, the most interesting is that
connected with the famous story of "the Great Pan is
dead," told by Plutarch in the _de Defectu Oraculorum_,
ch. xvii. The news of this strange story reached the
ears of Tiberius, who at once set the learned men about
him to inquire into it; and they came to the no less
strange conclusion that "this was the Pan who was born
of Hermes and Penelope." S. Reinach has recently offered
an explanation of this story, which is at least better
than previous ones, in _Cultes, mythes, et religions_,
vol. iii. p. 1 foll.

[902] _C.I.L._ vi. 1001.

[903] Jul. Capitolinus, 13.

[904] Symmachus, _Rel._ 3.

[905] _Cod. Theod._ xvi. 10. 2. On this subject
generally consult Dill's _Roman Society in the Last
Century of the Western