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Magna Mater in Latin Inscriptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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In the stress of the second Punic war the Romans resolved to receive the Great Mother from Mount Ida among the gods of their state, but no sooner had the gift of their friend and ally, king Attalus of Pergamum, arrived in Rome, than they were seized with horror at the nature of the goddess and the character of her priesthood. The decree of the senate went forth forbidding Roman citizens to take part in the worship of the goddess. Only on one day in the year might the revolting procession of the priests leave the temple on the Palatine, when on the 27th of March the image of the goddess was bathed in the little river Almo.
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page 50 note 1 Wissowa, Religion, 265.
page 50 note 2 On the legal status of these priests, cf. Mommsen, Römisches Strafrecht, 859.
page 50 note 3 Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, v, 488.
page 50 note 4 Ibid. v, 519.
page 50 note 5 Ibid. v, 3438.
page 50 note 6 Ibid. v, 5881.
page 50 note 7 Ibid. ii, 5260.
page 50 note 8 Ibid. vi, 641, 30973, cf. also v. Domaszewski, Abhandlungen zur röm. Religion, 74.
page 51 note 1 C.I.L. x, 3810.
page 51 note 2 Ibid. ix, 1538.
page 51 note 3 Ibid. v, 81.
page 51 note 4 Ibid. v, 5862.
page 51 note 5 Ibid. ix, 3146.
page 51 note 6 Ibid. ix, 5061.
page 51 note 7 Ibid. ix, 6099.
page 51 note 8 Ibid. ix, 734.
page 51 note 9 Ibid. x, 1596.
page 51 note 10 Ephem. epigr. viii, 455.
page 51 note 11 C.I.L. xiv, 3956.
page 51 note 12 Ibid. xiv, 3534.
page 51 note 13 Ibid. vi, 2257.
page 51 note 14 Ibid. vi, 2258.
page 51 note 15 Ibid. vi, 2259.
page 51 note 16 Ibid. vi, 2260.
page 51 note 17 Ibid. vi, 2261.
page 51 note 18 Ibid. vi, 2262.
page 51 note 19 Ibid. vi, 2263.
page 51 note 20 Ibid. vi, 2264.
page 51 note 21 Ibid. vi, 2183.
page 52 note 1 Amatorius, 13, p. 756, C.
page 52 note 2 C.I.L. v, 4985.
page 52 note 3 Ibid. ix, 414.
page 52 note 4 Ibid. ix, 3147.
page 52 note 5 Ibid. x, 1587.
page 52 note 6 Ibid. x, 6423.
page 52 note 7 Ibid. x, 3809.
page 52 note 8 Ibid. v, 520.
page 52 note 9 Ibid. v, 795a, 796.
page 52 note 10 Ibid. ix, 1100.
page 52 note 11 Ibid. ix, 5848.
page 52 note 12 Ibid. x, 1596, 1597.
page 52 note 13 Ibid. x, 4844.
page 52 note 14 Ibid. xi, 3080.
page 52 note 15 Ibid. xi, 3861.
page 52 note 16 Ibid. p. 5.
page 52 note 17 Ibid. xiv, 40: cf. Rhein. Museum, 49, 614, n. 2.
page 52 note 18 Ibid. x, 7, before A.D. 79. The inscription from Herculaneum, C.I.L. x, 1406, is evidence only of the state aid which Vespasian granted after the earthquake.
page 52 note 19 This is particularly clear in the country districts of central Italy represented in C.I.L. xi, where there is no evidence whatever of the worship of the Magna Mater and yet the dendrophori appear in every municipium.
page 53 note 1 The inscriptions relating to dendrophori in Italy are collected by Cumont, in Wissowa's, Enc. v, 216Google Scholar.
page 53 note 2 That gives its full importance to the inscription about the Lucar Libitinae, C.I.L. v, 5128.
page 53 note 3 The evidence does not begin until the end of the second century. The inscription of the reign of Septimius Severus, C.I.L. v, 4341, presupposes the existence of the college for a considerable time beforehand.
Ibid. ix, 981, 1540, 1153. Sacerdos flaminica divae Iuliae Piae augustae et matris deum magnae Idaeae et Isidis reginae. Julia Pia must be Julia Domna, who is often called Pia.
page 53 note 5 The procedure is described in C.I.L. x, 3698; cf. Dessau, 4117.
page 53 note 6 C.I.L. v, 4400; ix, 1538; x, 3764, 4726 (before A.D. 186)
page 53 note 7 Ibid. xiv, 2790; cf. Dessau, 4118.
page 53 note 8 Cf. note 4 above, and C.I.L. ix, 1538-1542.
page 53 note 9 Ibid. x, 3699.
page 53 note 10 Ibid. ii, 178 (freedman), 179 (woman),
page 53 note 11 Ibid. ii, 5521 (woman before A.D. 238).
page 53 note 12 Ibid. ii, 5260 (woman)
page 53 note 13 Ephem. epigr. viii, 160 (freedman).
page 53 note 14 C.I.L. ii, 3706.
page 54 note 1 Cagnat, Année épig. 1892, 18 (Probus).
page 54 note 2 C.I.L. viii, 12570 (dendrophorus).
page 54 note 3 Ibid. viii, 15527 (dendrophorus).
page 54 note 4 Ibid. viii, 1649 (sacerdos libertus), 15848.
page 54 note 5 Ibid. viii, 1776.
page 54 note 6 Ibid. viii, 16440.
page 54 note 7 Ibid. viii, 4846.
page 54 note 8 Ibid. viii, 2230.
page 54 note 9 Ibid. viii, 17907 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 10 Ibid. viii, 2633.
page 54 note 11 Ibid. viii. 5524.
page 54 note 12 Ibid. viii, 5707, 19125.
page 54 note 13 Ibid. viii, 6955: cf. 6940,6941 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 14 Ibid. viii, 7956 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 15 Ibid. viii, 19981.
page 54 note 16 Ibid. viii, 8457 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 17 Ibid. viii, 8656.
page 54 note 18 Ibid. viii, 9401, 21070 (dendrophorus).
page 54 note 19 Ibid. iii, 19521, 8675, 8676, 8823 (dendrophori), 2920a.
page 54 note 20 Ibid. iii, 9707.
page 54 note 21 Ibid. iii, 13972.
page 54 note 22 Ibid. iii, 3115.
page 54 note 23 Ibid. iii, 763 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 24 Ibid. iii, 7505 (woman).
page 54 note 25 Ibid. iii, 8016 (woman).
page 54 note 26 Ibid. iii, 1100 (veteran), 1001 (veteran), 1002 (woman), 1217 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 27 Ibid. iii, 3471.
page 54 note 28 Ibid. iii, 10858 (dendrophori).
page 54 note 29 Ibid. iii, 10738 (dendrophori), 743548 (woman).
page 54 note 30 Ibid. iii, 5194, 5195 (woman).
page 54 note 31 Ibid. iii, 5021.
page 54 note 32 Ibid. xiii, 7865 (consacrani).
page 54 note 33 Ibid. xiii, 7531 (woman).
page 54 note 34 Ibid. iii, 6664.
page 54 note 35 Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 9, 129, ff.
page 55 note 1 C.I.L. xiii, 6443.
page 55 note 2 Ibid. xiii, 6292.
page 55 note 3 Ibid. xiii, 7458.
page 55 note 4 Rangordnung, 75.
page 55 note 5 C.I.L. xiii, 1751.
page 55 note 6 Ibid. xiii, 1752.
page 55 note 7 Ibid. xiii, 1753 (women), 1754 (women), 1755.
page 55 note 8 Ibid. xii, 1782.
page 55 note 9 Ibid. xiii, p. 65.
page 55 note 10 Ibid. xiii, 520, cf. 511.
page 55 note 11 Ibid. xiii, 83 (woman).
page 55 note 12 Ibid. xiii, 572 (woman), 1118 is a forgery.
page 55 note 13 Ibid. xii, 4323, 4321, 4329. The other monuments, as usual, are of women, 4322, 4324-4326.
page 55 note 14 Ibid. xii, 251.
page 55 note 15 Ibid. xii, c. 357 (woman), 358.
page 55 note 16 Ibid. xii, 405, 411 (dendrophori).
page 55 note 17 Ibid. xii, 1222, 1223, 1567.
page 55 note 18 Ibid. xii, 1311.
page 55 note 19 Ibid. xii, 1567-1569.
page 55 note 20 Ibid. xii, 1567.
page 55 note 21 Ibid. xii, 1567.
page 55 note 22 Ibid. xii, 1567, 1744 (dendrophori), 1745.
page 55 note 23 Ibid. xii, 1827, 1878 (dendrophori), 1917 (dendrophori).
page 55 note 24 Ibid. xii, 5374.
page 55 note 25 Ibid. xii, 5607, 3.
page 55 note 26 Ibid. xii, 5953 (dendrophori).
page 55 note 27 Ibid. xii, I.
page 55 note 28 Cagnat, Année épigr. 1904, 140.
page 56 note 1 Lydus de Mensibus, 4, 59.
page 56 note 2 Strassburg Pap. i, 32.
page 56 note 3 How should he have known such a precise date, when he knew scarcely anything else about the emperor?
page 56 note 4 It is true that even Mommsen, Hermes, 25, 257, has changed the text of the chronographer in deference to the fabulist.
page 56 note 5 Vita Severi Alexandria, 37, 6.