1. Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l’Antiquité (Paris: Jérôme Million, 2003 [1879]), 600. The author adds, “This accommodation is not moreover, without prior example. The Romans also had their Jupiter Lapis, a flint that the Fetials carried with them, and a Jupiter Terminus which was riveted to the Capitol, like the omphalos of Delphi.”
2. Varron, De Lingua latina, VII, 17, trans. D. Nisard (Paris: Dubochet, Le Chevalier et Cie, 1850), 528. The life of the very controversial Désiré Nisard, to whom we are indebted for this translation of book 7 (only book 6 has appeared in a recent edition of “Belles Lettres”) deserves to be written about in a book. Éric Chevillard did so and the work is titled Démolir Nisard (Paris: Minuit, 2006).
3. J Plutarch, Sur la disparition des oracles, 409E, in Dialogues Pythiques, trans. Robert Flacelière (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1974), 100. In English: http://thriceholy.net/ Texts/Oracles.html.
4. Lyrics by Ismael Serrano, “Km.0,” song extracted from the album Los Paraísos desertios, TRAK, Madrid, 2000.
5. Isidore De Séville, Étymologies (Paris: Belles lettres, 1981), 14: 3, 21.