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 EELIGION chap, iv tion of the two forces, although Mr. Warde Fowler has givenreasons for thinking that the pontifices were specially active in thethird century B.C., when the cult of various old Italian deities, suchas Consus and Pales, and of personified abstractions which recallthe shadowy…
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