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- ↑ de spect. 8: frigebat daemonum concilium sine sua Matre: ea itaque illic praesidet Euripo
- ↑ cf. HJ 138, n68
- ↑ cf. ib. n69
- ↑ HJ 131, 40; RE III.2574; Rosch. II.1667‑1668
- ↑ Mart. I.70.9‑10: flecte vias hac qua madidi sunt tecta Lyaei et Cybeles picto stat Corybante tholus
- ↑ Mon. d. Inst. V.7; Mitt. 1895, 25‑27; Altm. 71‑72; Rosch. II.2917
- ↑ Atti Accad. Napoli XXIV. (1906, II.) 227‑262
- ↑ XLVI.33.3: ὣσπερ τό τε τῆς Μητρὸς τῶν θεῶν ἄγαλμα τὸ ἐν τῷ Παλατίῳ ὄν (πρὸς γὰρ τοι τὰς τοῦ ἡλίου ἀνατολὰς πρότερον βλέπων πρὸς δυσμὰς ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου μετεστράφη
- ↑ CIL VI.497‑504 p.326
- ↑ Severano, Sette Chiese, 95; cf. also NS 1922, 81; DAP 2.XV.271‑278; JHS 1923, 194
- ↑ Reg. XIV
- ↑ CIL XIII.1751: L. Aemilius Carpus IIIIIIvir Aug. item dendrophorus vires excepit et a Vaticano transtulit
- ↑ RhM 1891, 132; HJ 659; Rosch. II.2917