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• Lit. i. pt. 2, p 486 67] e.g. the three days on which the mundus was open were all comitiales_, though at the same time religiosi 68] R.K. pp. 376, 377 69] The authorities for the story are Verrius Flaccus ap. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• Let us also note that dies religiosi were not marked in the Fasti, i.e. days on which some uncomfortable feeling prevailed, such as the three days on which the mundus was open to allow the Manes to come up from their shadowy abode below the earth; with the character of such days as "uncanny" the calendar has simply nothing to do. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• Sapiens a principio mundus, et deus habendus est_;[778] these words, which sound like an article of a creed, suffice for us without the laborious arguments of Cleanthes and Chrysippus which we may read in the fifth and sixth chapters of Cicero's book. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• "[30] But since "mundus" in the Latin tongue has the force of "world," they thought that the saying had reference to the world. —  Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
• Surely something may be said for Gaston Boissier's suggestion that Dante's Tuscan blood may account to some extent for the gruesome imagery of the Inferno Cicero[1] tells us that it was generally believed that the dead lived on beneath the earth, and special provision was made for them in every Latin town in the "mundus," a deep trench which was dug before the "pomerium" was traced, and regarded as the particular entrance to the lower world for the dead of the town in question. —  Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

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