Note 998 — MENSIS SEPTEMBER.
Reading edition
Aust, in Lex. 676. The idea is that of Helbig in his Italiker in der Poebene, 91 foll. Cp. Schwegler, Röm. Gesch. i. 681, and Preller, i. 248 foll. H. Nettleship, Essays in Latin Literature, p. 35, and Strachan-Davidson (Polybius, Prolegomena, viii) discuss the oath per Iovem lapidem usefully. Nettleship saw that the passage of Servius is the only one which ‘gives any real support’ to the notion that the god was represented by a stone; and Strachan-Davidson notes the aetiological method of Servius.