Note 245 — Chapter III · HOLY DAYS
Reading edition
Ovid, Fasti, i, 664 sq.:
Pagus agat festum: pagum lustrate, coloni; Et date paganis ennua liba focis.
Some ancient authorities (Varro, De lingua Latina, vi, 26; Macrobius, Saturnalia, i, 16, 6) appear to distinguish the Paganalia from the feriæ sementivæ. On this festival see Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 294 sqq.; idem, The Religious Experience of the Roman People, London, 1911, pp. 61 sq.