a, of Etruscan origin. Meaning
of cult-titles Optimus Maximus, and significance of this
great Jupiter in Roman religious experience 223-247

LECTURE XI

CONTACT OF THE OLD AND NEW IN RELIGION

Plan of this and following lectures. The formalised
Roman religion meets with perils, material and moral,
and ultimately proves inadequate. Subject of this
lecture, the introduction of Greek deities and rites;
but first a proof that the Romans were a really
religious people; evidence from literature, from
worship, from the practice of public life, and from
Latin religious vocabulary.

Temple of Ceres, Liber, Libera (Demeter, Dionysus,
Persephone); its importance for the date of Sibylline
influence at Rome. Nature of this influence; how and
when it reached Rome. The keepers of the "Sibylline
books"; new cults introduced by them. New rites:
lectisternia and supplicationes, their meaning and
historical importance 248-269

LECTURE XII

THE PONTIFICES AND THE SECULARISATION OF RELIGION

Historical facts about the Pontifices in this period; a
powerful exclusive "collegium" taking charge of the _ius
divinum_. The legal side of their work; they
administered the oldest rules of law, which belonged to
that _ius_. New ideas of law after Etruscan period;
increasing social complexity and its effect on legal
matters; result, publication of rules of law, civil and
religious, in XII. Tables, and abolition of legal
monopoly of Pontifices. But they keep control of (1)
procedure, (2) interpretation, till end of fourth
century B.C. Publication of Fasti and _Legis actiones_;
the college opened to Plebeians. Work of Pontifices in
third century: (1) admission of new deities, (2)
compilation of annals, (3) collection of religious
formulae. General result; formalisation of religion; and
secularisation of pontifical influence 270-291

LECTURE XIII

THE AUGURS AND THE ART OF DIVINATION

Divination a universal practice: its relation to magic.
Want of a comprehensive treatment of it. Its object at
Rome: to assure oneself of the _pax deorum_; but it was
the most futile method used. Private divination; limited
and discouraged by the State, except in the form of
family _auspicia_. Public