^{page 101 note 1} According to Livy 7. 2. 3 the tibicen and ludius did not reach Rome till 364 B.C. This obscure and difficult chapter mentions incidentally that the Circus was prior to the dramatic spectacle—nam circi modo spectaculum fuerat.

^{page 101 note 2} See Fowler, W. Warde, The Roman Festivals, pp. 206 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 101 note 3} … virgines, quae Romam ludorum gratia venissent, quos turn primum anniversaries in circo facere instituisset, Consualibus rapi iussit … Cf. Varro, , de lingua Latino 6. 20.Google Scholar

^{page 101 note 4} The phrase was explicitly borrowed to annotate the Delphin A.A., in spite of the fact that the incident occurs in a theatre.

^{page 101 note 5} Romulus 14 Google Scholar. For Fabius Pictor see Piganiol, A., Les Jeux Romains (1923), pp. 15 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 101 note 6} Cf. also Vergil, , Aen. 8. 635–6. The difference was already noticed by Brandt; see his edition of the A.A., Anhang, p. 209. It is worth noticing that Ovid's stage is made of boughs from the Palatine, the hill near the Circus Maximus, whereas the theatres in Ovid's time were all some distance from the Palatine. This remark may, therefore, be a trace of the usual view of the Romulean games, namely that they occurred in the Circus.Google Scholar

^{page 102 note 1} Romulus is said to have instituted bellicrepam saltationem, ne simile pateretur, quod fecerat ipse, cum a ludis Sabinorum virgines rapuit. See Paulus, , p. 31, Lindsay.Google Scholar

^{page 102 note 2} See esp. Tac, . Ann. 14 Google Scholar. 20 for criticism of Pompey's theatre. There was also criticism of the elegant temporary theatres of Scaurus and Curio: see Pliny, N.H. 36 Google Scholar. 113. A theatre was planned in 155 B.C., but was opposed by the eximia civitatis severitas et consul Scipio (Velleius Paterculus, 1. 15. 3). Sulla is taken to task by Plutarch for passionate ceillades in the theatre, even though they led to marriage. See Plutarch, , Sulla 35; the chapter is also useful on the question of separate seats for different groups.Google Scholar

^{page 102 note 3} See the brilliant description in the A.A. 1. 135 ff., an account which is probably based on Amores 3. 2 Google Scholar. For seating in the Circus cf. Juvenal, , 11 Google Scholar. 202—quos cultae decet adsedisse puellae. Cf. Ovid, , Tristia 2. 284.Google Scholar

^{page 102 note 4} Cf. Propertius, 4. 8. 77.

^{page 103 note 1} Suetonius, , Augustus 44 Google Scholar ff. For the so called Lex Iulia Theatralis see Daremberg-Saglio, , v. 304 Google Scholar, and cf. Companion to Latin Studies, p. 519 Google Scholar. Suetonius, Augustus 60, and Pliny, , N.H. 33. 32, seem to refer to the equites.Google Scholar