Inde ubi sacrificaa cum conjuge venit ad area jEsoiiiikx, tiiimjue adeunt pariterque preeari Inclpiuid. Ignem Pollux undamque jugalem Prcetulit ut dextrum pariter vertantur in orbern.

The above passage forms a striking comment upon our text. Cp. also Plutarch in this life of Camillus Tavra. tlirwv, KaBbvep for] Pco/xaiois efloy, tir(vau.fvots KO.} fpo<TKw- l)ffa<riv, e'wl 8e|i& tfirTeiv, fa-pdTf) ire/>i<rrp6^>rf|U6>'os. It is possible that the following passage in Lucretius alludes to the same practice

Nee pietas ulla est velatum stepe v' <ier ad lapidem atque omtics accederead aras.

Dr. Fergusson is of opinion that this movement was a symbol of the cosmical rotation, an imitation of the apparent course of the sun in the heavens. Cp. Hyginus Fable CCV. Arge venatrix, cum cervum sequeretur, cervo dixisse fertur : Tit licet Soli* cut-sum sequaris, tamen te consequar. Sol, iratus, in cervam earn contertit. He quotes, to prove that the practice existed among the ancient Celts, Athenaeus IV, p. 142, who adduces from Posidonius the following statement " T6vs 6foi>s irpocrKvvovffiv ^iri Seftct <rTpe$6fj.fvoi." The above quotations are but a few scraps from the full feast of Dr. Fergusson's paper. See also the remarks of the Rev. S. Beal in the Indian Antiquary for March 1880, p. 67.

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