367 b. c. the number was increased to ten, and at a latertime (probably by Sulla) to fifteen {quindecimviri s. /.), which wasnever formally exceeded, although supernumerary members of thecollege were often appointed under the Empire. It will be seen that the action of the quindecimviri was… … 288 RELIGION chap, iv tion of the two foi-ces, although Mr. Warde Fowler has givenreasons for thinking that the ponfifices were specially active in thethird century B.C., Avhen the cult of various old Italian deities, suchas Census and Pales, and of personified abstractions which recallthe shadowy…
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