Note 1086 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER (continued 2)

Festus, s.vv. aquaelicium and manalem lapidem, pp. 2, 128, ed. C. O. Müller; Nonius Marcellus, s.v. trullum, p. 637, ed. Quicherat; Servius on Virgil, Aen. iii. 175; Fulgentius, “Expos. serm. antiq.” s.v. manales lapides, Mythogr. Lat. ed. Staveren, pp. 769 sq. It has been suggested that the stone derived its name and its virtue from the manes or spirits of the dead (E. Hoffmann, in Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, N.F. l. (1895), pp. 484–486). Mr. O. Gilbert supposes that the stone was hollow and filled with water which was poured out in imitation of rain. See O. Gilbert, Geschichte und Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum, ii. (Leipsic, 1885) p. 154 note. His suggestion is thus exactly parallel to that of Furtwängler as to the pitcher at Crannon (above, p. 309 note 6). Compare W. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (London, 1899), pp. 232 sq.