Note 1090 — MENSIS OCTOBER.
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An apt illustration of this aspect of Mars, in combination with the older primitive form of ritual, is supplied by the strange sacrifice by Julius Caesar of two mutinous soldiers, recorded by Dio Cassius, 43. 24. They were offered to Mars in the Campus Martius by the Flamen Martialis in the presence of the Pontifices, and their heads were nailed up on the Regia. (Hence Marq. infers that it was this flamen who sacrificed the October horse.) Caesar was in Rome in October of the year to which D. C. attributes this deed, B.C. 46.