as
if she had revealed it to the sculptor. To look upon
such an image helped the worshipper as much as--perhaps
more than--any service or ritual, to bring himself into
communion with the goddess, and to fit himself, as a
citizen of her chosen city, to carry out her will in
contributing his best efforts to its supremacy in
politics, in literature, and in art." That Scipio had
some feeling of this kind need not be doubted, though
the statue was not a great work of art like that of
Phidias. Cp. Lucretius, vi. 75 foll.

[718] See below, p. 386.

[719] Marquardt, 332, and Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, i. ed.
2, p. 463 foll.

[720] Livy, _Epit._ xix.

[721] Livy xxxvii. 51: "Religio ad postremum vicit, ut
dicto audiens esset flamen pontifici." Here _religio_ is
used in the sense of obligation to the _ius divinum_.

[722] Livy xxvii. 6; cp. 36.

[723] This story is told in Livy xl. 42.

[724] Livy xxvii. 8. For the compelling power (_capere_)
of the Pont. Max., see Marq. 314. The story may have
come from the annals of the Valerii Flacci, and also
from those of the pontifices; it was apparently well
known, as Valerius Maximus knew it (vi. 9. 2).

[725] Velleius ii. 43.

[726] Livy xxxi. 50.

[727] For the oath see "Lex incerta reperta Bantiae,"
lines 16 and 17, in Bruns, _Fontes Iuris Romani_. The
oath taboo is mentioned by Gellius 10. 15. 3.; Festus
104, and Plutarch, _Quaest. Rom._ 113.

[728] Livy xxxii. 7; xxxix. 39.

[729] Tac. _Ann._ iv. 16.

[730] See above, p. 255.

[731] Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, vol. v. p.
85 foll. Very interesting is the modern survival of
Dionysiac rites recently discovered in Thrace by Mr.
Dawkins (_Hellenic Journal_, 1906, p. 191).

[732] Farnell, _op. cit._ vol. v. p. 150.

[733] Quoted by Farnell, p. 151, from Rohde's _Psyche_.

[734] It is possible that _superstitio_ may originally
have had some such meaning; see W. Otto in _Archiv fuer
Religionswissenschaft_, 1909, p. 548 foll.; Mayor's
edition of Cic. _de Nat. Deorum_, note on ii. 72 foll.

[735] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 523 foll. See also _Roman
Society in the Age of Cicero_, p. 289.

[736] See Mr. Heitland's _History of the Roman
Republic_, vol. ii. p. 229 note, and cp. Wissowa in
Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encycl._ _s.v._ "Ba