Note 419 — MENSIS MAIUS.
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‘Habent vincula nulla pedes’ (Fasti, 5. 432). In performing sacred rites a man must be free; e. g. the Flamen Dialis might not wear a ring, or anything binding, and a fettered prisoner had to be loosed in his house (Plut. Q. R. 111). Cp. Numa in his interview with Faunus (Ov. Fasti, 4. 658), ‘Nec digitis annulus ullus inest.’ Serv. Aen. 4. 518; Hor. Sat. 1. 8. 24.