Note 246 — Chapter III · HOLY DAYS
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Macrobius, op. cit., i, 16, 8. On the taboos affecting the Flamen and Flaminica see F. B. Jevons, Plutarch’s Romane Questions, London, 1892, pp. lxxiii sqq.; Sir J. G. Frazer, Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 13 sq. The Flamen was in a condition of permanent taboo—Dialis cotidie feriatus est (Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, x, 15, 16).