--Under such circumstances, which are probably not very widely different from the earliest Roman conditions, the household approximates in character to the community.
5.

The Latin festival is expressly called "armistice" (-indutiae-, Macrob.Sat.i.

16; -- ekecheipiai--, Dionys.iv.

49); and a war was not allowed to be begun during its continuance (Macrob.l.

c.) 6.