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.

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

[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.

[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.

[40] Fowler, _Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero_,
p. 143 foll. Cp. Westermarck, _Origin, etc._, vol. i.
ch. xxvi., especially p. 652 foll.

[41] _G.B._ i. 298 foll.

[42] Festus, _s.v._ "exesto."

[43] Buecheler, _Umbrica_, p. 94 foll. Cp. Livy v. 50,
where it is said that, after the Gauls had left Rome,
all the temples, _quod e