Mavortis semine natos
Uberibus gravidis vitali rore rigabat:
Quae tum cum pueris flammato fulminis ictu
Concidit, atque avulsa pedum vestigia liquit."
_De Suo Consulatu_, lib. ii. lines 42-46.

[635] Dion., _Hist._, lib. xxxvii. p. 37, edit. Rob. Steph., 1548.

[636] Luc. Fauni _De Antiq. Urb. Rom._, lib. ii. cap. vii., _ap._
Sallengre, 1745, i. 217,

[637] Ap. Nardini _Roma Vetus_, lib. v. cap. iv., _ap._ J. G. Graev.,
_Thes. Antiq. Rom._, iv. 1146.

[638] Marliani _Urb. Rom. Topograph._, Venice, 1588, p. 23.

[639] {511} Just. Rycquii _De Capit. Roman. Comm._, cap. xxiv. p. 250,
edit. Lugd. Bat. 1696.

[640] Nardini, _Roma Vetus_, lib. v. cap. iv.

[641] Montfaucon, _Diarium Italic._, Paris, 1702, i. 174.

[642] _Storia delle Arti, etc._, Milan, 1779, lib. iii. cap. iii. s. ii.
note * (i. 144). Winckelmann has made a strange blunder in the note, by
saying the Ciceronian wolf was _not_ in the Capitol, and that Dion was
wrong in saying so.

[643] Flam. Vacca, _Memorie_, num. iii. _ap_. _Roma Antica di Famiano_,
Nardini, Roma, 1771, iv. _s.f._ p. iii.

[644] {512} Luc. Fauni _De Antiq. Urb. Rom._, lib. ii. cap. vi., _ap._
Sallengre, tom. i. p. 216.

[645] See note to stanza lxxx. in _Historical Illustrations_.

[646] "Romuli nutrix Lupa honoribus est affecta divinis. Et ferrem, si
animal ipsum fuisset, cujus figuram gerit." Lactant., _De Falsa
Religione_, lib. i. cap. xx., Biponti, 1786, i. 66; that is to say, he
would rather adore a wolf than a prostitute. His commentator has
observed that the opinion of Livy concerning Laurentia being figured in
this wolf was not universal. Strabo thought so. Rycquius is wrong in
saying that Lactantius mentions the wolf was in the Capitol.

[647] To A.D. 496. "Quis credere possit," says Baronius [_Ann. Eccles._,
Lucae, 1741, viii. 602, in an. 496], "viguisse adhuc Romae ad Gelasii
tempora, quae fuere ante exordium Urbis allata in Italiam Lupercalia?"
Gelasius wrote a letter, which occupies four folio pages, to Andromachus
the senator, and others, to show that the rites should be given up.

[648] {513} _Eccles. Hist._ (Lipsiae, 1827, p. 130), lib. ii. cap. xiii.
p. 40. Justin Martyr had told the story before; but Baronius himself was
obliged to detect this fable. See Nardini, _Roma Vet._, lib. vii. cap.
xii.

[649] _Accurata e succincta Descrizione, etc., di Roma moderna_, dell'
Ab. Ridolfino Venuti, Rome, 1766, ii. 397.