ndar described, 92-109;
spurious books found in stone coffin, 349, 381

Numbers, mystic, 98, 328, 334, 441, 449

_Numen_, 34, 111, 250, 264, 364, 365, 367, 407;
meaning of the word, 118;
von Domaszewski's definition of, 119;
evolution of _dei_ out of functional _numina_, 165;
_see also_ Spirits _and_ Deities

Oak-gods, 125, 129, 141, 143

Oaths: connection of Castor and Pollux with, 232;
of Hercules, 231;
of Jupiter, 130;
taken in open air, 141-142;
the religious, in public life, 358, 375;
used by women, 244;
taboo on, 343, 355

Oberator, 161

October horse, 20, 34, 65, 106;
sacrifice of, 45, 105, 179

Odd numbers, luck in, 98

_Ollae_, worship of, 489-490

Opalia, 101

Opiconsiva, 101

Ops, 156;
connection with Consus, 482;
with Saturnus, 482

Oracles, 339, 354;
_see also_ Delphic oracle

Orcus, 166;
the old name for the abode of the Manes, 391, 392;
sacrifice of captives to, 44

Orosius, 333

Orphic doctrine, 381;
tablets, 398

Oscilla, 61, 67;
Dr. Frazer's theory, 61;
_see also_ Puppets

Otto, W., on connection of _religio_ with practice of taboo, 46

Ovid, on Roman gods, 22;
his picture of the Sementivae, 79, 80;
rite of pagus, 82;
on the Lemuria, 107, 112, 394;
on Janus, 125;
on images of gods, 147;
on the Robigalia, 181, 196, 197, 434;
on meals at sacrifices, 193;
on the word _februum_, 210;
on annual ceremony by consuls, 219;
on the festival of Anna Perenna, 346, 473

Paganalia, 61, 62, 67, 102

Pagus: the _familia_ in relation to, 71;
meaning of the word, 87;
festival of the Lar, 78;
other festivals, 79;
the _religio terminorum_, 81-82;
lustrations of the, 213, 214

Pais, on Acca Larentia, 67;
on the Tarquinii and Mastarna, 245

Palatine: _Carmen saeculare_ sung on the, 443-447, 450;
temple of Apollo, 443-445

Pales, 122, 149

Panaetius: and the Scipionic circle, 363-364, 453;
his theology, 365;
and Platonic psychology, 382, 398

Pantheism, Stoic, 366-368

Papirius, the consul, 314, 315, 331

Parentalia, 40, 107, 387, 401, 418, 457;
compared with the Lemuria, 393-395

Parilia, 100, 120, 193, 222, 474

Pater and Mater, as applied to deities, 155-157

Patricians, 259, 304;
religious system a monopoly of, 229

Patulcius, cult-title of Janus, 126

Pax (deity), 446, 451

_Pax deorum_, 169, 224, 261, 264, 272, 276, 286, 302, 328, 329;
means towards maintenance o