in Pagan worship, the goddess of the shepherds; to whom they offered milk and honey, in order that she might deliver them and their flocks from wild beasts and infectious diseases. This goddess is represented as an old woman. She was worshipped with great solemnity at Rome; and her festivals, called Pala-lica, were celebrated on the 21st of April, the very day that Romulus began to lay the foundation of the city of Rome. The ceremony of which consisted in burning heaps of straw, and in leaping over them. No sacrifices were offered, but purifications were made with the smoke of horses blood, and with the ashes of a calf that had been taken from the belly of its mother after it had been sacrificed, and with the ashes of beans. The purification of the flocks was also made with the smoke of sulphur, of the olive, the pine, the laurel, and the rosemary. Offerings of milk cheese, boiled wine, and cakes of millet, were afterwards made to the goddess. Some call this festival Pailia, quasi a periendo, because the sacrifices were offered to the divinity for the fecundity of the flocks.