457.]
[Footnote 460: It is the same word as our _fair_.]
[Footnote 461: _Fasti_, iii. 523 foll.; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p.
51.]
[Footnote 462: _Roman Festivals_, p. 185. The custom doubtless had a
religious origin.]
[Footnote 463: _Ib_. p. 268. Augustus limited the days to three.]
[Footnote 464: Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus_, p. 170. The cult of
Saturn was largely affected by Greek usage, but this particular custom
was more likely descended from the usage of the Latin farm.]
[Footnote 465: See above, p. 172. Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 586;
Frazer, _Golden Bough_ (ed. 2), vol. iii. p. 188 foll.]
[Footnote 466: Cic. _Verr_. I. 10. 31; where Cicero complains of the
difficulties he experienced in conducting his case in consequence of
the number of ludi from August to November in that year.]
[Footnote 467: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 217 foll.]
[Footnote 468: See the account in Dion. Hal. vii. 72, taken from
Fabius Pictor.]
[Footnote 469: See Friedlaender in Marquardt, _Staatsverwaltung_, iii.
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