cchanalia."

[737] Livy xxxix. 8 foll.

[738] Plato, _de Rep._ 364 B; cp. _Laws_, 933 D.

[739] "Quaestio de clandestinis coniurationibus decreta
est," Livy xxxix. 8; so also in chs. 14 and 17. Cp.
_Sctm. de Bacchanalibus_, line 13, "conioura (se)." This
document is, strictly speaking, a letter to the
magistrates "in agro Teurano" in Bruttium embodying the
orders of the Senatus consultum. It will be found in
Bruns, _Fontes Iuris Romani_, or in Wordsworth,
_Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_.

[740] Livy xxxix. 16: "Omnia, dis propitiis
volentibusque, faciemus, qui quia suum numen sceleribus
libidinibusque contaminari indigne ferebant," etc.

[741] Mommsen, _Strafrecht_, p. 567 foll.

[742] Livy xxxix. 18 _ad fin._ _Sctm. de Bacch._ lines 3
foll.

[743] _Religion der Roemer_, p. 78.

[744] Livy xl. 29 seems to have put his account together
from Cassius Hemina and other annalists, so far as we
can judge from the reference to them in Pliny, _N.H._
xiii. 84; Valerius Antias, who simply stated that the
writings were Pythagorean as well as Numan, Livy
rejects as ignorant of the chronological impossibility
of making the king contemporary with the philosopher.
The fragment of Cassius Hemina is quoted in Pliny, sec.
86; Val. Max. i. 1, and Plutarch, _Numa_ 22, add nothing
to our knowledge of the incident.

[745] See Schanz, _Gesch. der roem. Literatur_, i. 268;
Pliny, _loc. cit._, calls him "vetustissimus auctor
annalium," but his work was later than the _Annals_ or
_Origines_ of Cato.

[746] Ennius came from South Italy (Rudiae in Messapia),
the home of Pythagoreanism. For traces of it in his
works, see Reid on Cicero, _Academica priora_, ii. 51.

[747] This is the view taken by Colin, _Rome et la
Grece, 200-146 B.C._, p. 269 foll. This reaction was
probably only a part of the general reversion to
conservatism which we have been noticing in the action
of the government in religious matters.

[748] See above, p. 149 foll.

[749] Quoted by Aust, _Religion der Roemer_, p. 64. The
passage is in Zeller's _Religion und Philosophie bei den
Roemern_, a short treatise reprinted in his _Vortraege und
Abhandlungen_, ii. 93 foll.

[750] Ribbeck, _Fragmenta Tragicorum Latinorum_, p. 54.

[751] _Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cic