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I have added the words of the praetor in his standing edict concerning the flamen Dialis and the priestess of Vesta: Fontes Jur. Rom., p. 197. In the whole of my jurisdiction I will not compel the flamen of Jupiter or a priestess of Vesta to take an oath. The words of Marcus Varro about the flamen Dialis, in the second book of his Divine Antiquities, are as follows: Fr. 4, p. cxiii, Merkel. He alone has a white cap, either because he is the greatest of priests, or because a white victim should be sacrificed to Jupiter. White was emblematic of royalty. Cf. Suetonius Jul. Ixxix, I.
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Errors in Roman History which Julius Hyginus noted in Virgil's sixth book.
