1, 104, 106, 108, 145,
162, 170, 270, 282, 343, 434, 460

Curia, 138

Curiatius, 126

Cynics, the, 372

Days, lucky and unlucky, 38-41;
_see also_ Dies

De Marchi, on votive offerings, 201, 202

Dea Dia, 146;
description of rites, 435-436;
veneration for utensils used, 436;
temple, 161, 436

Dead: disposal of the, 45, 84, 121, 395, 401;
cult, 91, 102, 457, 470;
festivals, 40, 112, 418;
contrast between Lemuria and Parentalia, 107, 393-395

Decemviri, 259, 317, 318, 326

Decius Mus, self-sacrifice of, 206-207, 220, 286, 320

Deities, Roman: _see also_ Numen _and_ Spirits;
sources of our knowledge of, 114-115;
mental conception of the Romans regarding, 115-117, 122-123,
139-140, 145, 147, 157, 224-225;
_di indigetes_, 117, 139, 149, 180, 214;
functional spirits with will-power, 119;
the four great gods, 124-134;
epithets of Pater and Mater applied to, 137, 155-157;
the question of marriage, 148-152, 166, 350, 481-485;
fluctuation between male and female, 148-149;
nomenclature, 118, 149-156, 163;
compared with Greek gods, 158;
presence of, at meals, 172-173, 193;
introduction of new, 96, 229-242, 255-262;
women's, _see_ Women

Delphic oracle consulted during Hannibalic war, 323-324, 326

Demeter, 255;
supersession of Ceres by, 100

Deubner, Professor, his theory of the Lupercalia, 138, 478-480

_Devotio_, 206-209, 219-221;
formula, 207-208, 220;
sacrificial nature, 207, 220

Di Manes: _see_ Manes

Di Penates: _see_ Penates

Diana: associated with Janus, 76, 125, 166;
connection with Artemis, 235, 443;
with Apollo, 443, 446;
with Hercules, 262;
functions, 234-236;
temples, 95, 147, 234, 237, 244

_Dies comitiales_, 103
_endotercisi_, 181
_fasti_, 98, 103, 181
_lustricus_, 28, 42, 90
_nefasti_, 38, 40, 98, 103, 181
_postriduani_, 39, 40
_religiosi_, 38-40, 105

Dieterich, on disposal of the dead, 401

Dill, Professor, on Roman worship, 200

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 130, 193, 215, 234, 250

Dionysus: identified with Liber, 255, 344;
ritual, in Greece, 344-345;
outbreak of Dionysiac orgies in Italy, 344

Dis, black victims sacrificed to, 440

Dius Fidius, connection with Jupiter, 130, 142

Divination, 56, 180;
a universal instinct of human nature, 292, 306;
connection with magic, 293, 310;
views on the origin of, 293;
formalised by State authorities, 295, 300;
private, 295;
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