The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
_Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, xiv. No. 2387; L. Preller, _Römische
Mythologie_, 3rd Ed., i. 263 _sq._ On Vejovis as the Little Jupiter
see Festus, _s.v._ “Vesculi,” p. 379, “_Ve enim syllabam rei parvae
praeponebant, unde Veiovem parvum Iovem et vegrandem fabam minutam
dicebant_”; also Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 429-448. At Rome the sanctuary of
Vejovis was on the saddle between the two peaks of the Capitoline hill
(Aulus Gellius, v. 12. 1 _sq._; Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 429 _sq._); thus
he appropriately dwelt on the same hill as the Great Jupiter, but
lower down the slope. On coins of the Gargilian, Ogulnian and
Vergilian houses Vejovis is represented by a youthful beardless head,
crowned with oak. See E. Babelon, _Monnaies de la République Romaine_,
i. 532, ii. 266, 529. On other Republican coins his head is crowned
with laurel. See E. Babelon, _op. cit._ i. 77, 505-508, ii. 6, 8.
Circensian games were held at Bovillae in honour of the Julian family,
and Tiberius dedicated a chapel to them there. See Tacitus, _Annals_,
ii. 41, xv. 23.
Footnote 576:
Festus, _s.v._ “Caesar,” p. 57, ed. C. O. Müller. Other but less
probable explanations of the name are suggested by Aelius Spartianus
(_Helius_, ii. 3 _sq._).
Footnote 577:
As to the Frankish kings see Agathias, _Hist._ i. 3; J. Grimm,
_Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer_, pp. 239 _sqq._; _The Golden Bough_,
Second Edition, i. 368 _sq._
Footnote 578:
Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Roman._ i. 71; Diodorus Siculus,
in Eusebius, _Chronic._ bk. i. coll. 287, 289, ed. A. Schoene;
Diodorus Siculus, vii. 3a and 4, ed. L. Dindorf; Zonaras, _Annal._
vii. 1; Aurelius Victor, _Origo gentis Romanae_, 18; Ovid, _Metam._
xiv. 616-618; _id._, _Fasti_, iv. 50; Livy, i. 3. 9. The king is
called Romulus by Livy, Remulus by Ovid, Aremulus by Aurelius Victor,
Amulius by Zonaras, Amulius or Arramulius by Diodorus, and Allodius by
Dionysius. A tale of a city submerged in the Alban lake is still
current in the neighbourhood. See the English translators’ note to
Niebuhr’s _History of Rome_, 3rd Ed., i. 200. Similar stories are told
in many lands. See my note on Pausanias, vii. 24. 6.
Footnote 579:
See above, vol. i. p. 310.
Footnote 580:
See above, vol. i. pp. 342 _sqq._
Footnote 581:
Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ ii. 140, xxviii. 13 _sq._ Other writers speak only
of Numa’s skill in expiating the prodigy or evil omen of thunderbolts.
See Livy, i. 20. 7; Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 285-348; Plutarch, _Numa_, 15;
Arnobius, _Adversus nationes_, v. 1-4.
Footnote 582:
See above, vol. i. pp. 248, 251.
Footnote 583:
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