Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . hut up the temple and unroofed it,^ that hemight perish under the open air, hence ara is put for refugmm? The triumviri consecrated a chapel to Cajsar in the forum,on the place where he was burned; and ordained that no personwho fled thither for sanctuary should be taken from thence topunishment; a thing which, says Dio, had been granted to noone before, not even to any divinity; except the asylum ofRomulus, which remained only in name, being so blocked upthat no one could enter it. But the shrine of Julius was notal
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . hut up the temple and unroofed it,^ that hemight perish under the open air, hence ara is put for refugmm? The triumviri consecrated a chapel to Cajsar in the forum,on the place where he was burned; and ordained that no personwho fled thither for sanctuary should be taken from thence topunishment; a thing which, says Dio, had been granted to noone before, not even to any divinity; except the asylum ofRomulus, which remained only in name, being so blocked upthat no one could enter it. But the shrine of Julius was notalways esteemed inviolable; the son of Antony was slain byAugustus, although he fled to it.^ There were various vessels and instruments used in sacrifices;as, acerra vel tJiuribulum, a censer for burning incense ; simpu-lum vel si7npuvium, guttum, capis, -idis, patera, cups used inlibations, ollcs, pots; tiipodes, tripods; secures vel hipennes^axes; cultri vel secespitre, knives, &c. But these will be betterunderstood by the representation below tlian by description :—. i Serv. Virg. -In. xii. 120. Eel. viii. R5. Don. Ter. iv. 4, 5. Hor. Od. iv. Gv. Trist. iii. 13. 15. Stat. Theb. viii. S;:. xri. 309. Prop. iv. 6. 6- Virg. ^n. G. iv. 276. 3 Nep. Paus. 4. Cic-Nat. D. iii. 10. Gv. Trist. v. 2. Kings, i. 50. 4 Cic. fuse. i. 36. Virg. ^n. L 349. ii. 513. 6 tectum snnt «Ter. Heiiut. v. 2. 22. liti. Plant. Rnd. iii. 4. 18. 7 Nep. Paus. v. i. 45. Tac. Gv. Trist. iv. 5. i Ann. iii. 60. 8 Dio. xivii. Cic. Dom. 41. Plauf. Aug. »t. v. i, 00. ROMAN YEAR. THE ROMAN YEAR. 265 Romulus is said to have divided the year into ten months ; tnefirst of Avhich was called Martins, March, from Mars his sup-posed father; the second Aprilis, either from the Greek nameof Venus (Atp^o^.-ri?),^ or because then trees and flowers open ~their buds; the third, Mains, May, from Maia, the mother o(Mercury; and the fourth, Jurdus, June, from the goddess
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