Footnote 389: Otherwise in Lactantius, 1. 22. 11, and Arnob. 5. 18, where Fauna is said to have been beaten because she drank wine; no doubt a later version. Lactantius quotes Sext. Clodius, a contemporary of Cicero. Footnote 390: _H. N._ 14. 88. See above on feriae Latinae, p. 97. Virg. _Ecl._ 5. 66; _Georg._ 1. 344; _Aen._ 5. 77. In the last passage milk is offered to the _inferiae_ of Anchises: we may note the similarity of the cult of Earth-deities and of the dead. Footnote 391: Plut. _Q. R._ 20; Macrob. l. c.; Lactant. l. c. The myth has been explained as Greek (Wissowa, in Pauly, 688), but its peculiar feature, the whipping, could hardly have become attached to a Roman cult unless there were something in the cult to attach it to, or unless the cult itself were borrowed from the Greek. That the latter was the case it is impossible to prove; and I prefer to believe that both cult and myth were Roman. Footnote 392: _Mythologische Forschungen_, 115 foll. Cp. Frazer, _Golden Bough_, ii. 213 foll. Footnote 393: Below, p. 320. See also on July 7 (Nonae Caprotinae). Footnote 394: Macrob. l. c. ‘Quidam Medeam putant, quod in aede eius omne genus herbarum sit ex quibus antistites dant plerumque medicinas.’ Footnote 395: _C. I. L._ vi. 54 foll. Footnote 396: This no doubt gave rise to the myth that Faunus ‘coisse cum filia’ in the form of a snake. Here again the myth may possibly be Greek, but we have no right to deny that it may have had a Roman basis. Snakes were kept in great numbers both in temples and houses in Italy (Preller-Jordan, i. 87, 385). Footnote 397: Plin. _H. N._ 29 _passim_, especially 14, &c., where Cato is quoted as detesting the new Greek art, and urging his son to stick to the old simples; some of which, with their absurd charms, are given in Cato, R. R. 156 foll. Footnote 398: Macrob. l. c.; Juv. _Sat._ 2. 86. Footnote 399: Marq. 173. Gilbert (_Gesch. und Topogr._ ii. 159, note) has some impossible combinations on this subject, and concludes that the Bona Dea was a moon-goddess. Footnote 400: See above, p. 72 foll. Footnote 401: Paulus, 68 ‘Damium sacrificium, quod fiebat in operto in honorem Bonae deae, ... dea quoque ipsa Damia et sacerdos eius damiatrix appellabatur.’ Footnote 402: R. Peter in _Myth. Lex._, s. v. Damia; Wissowa, l. c. Footnote 403: Paulus, l. c. Footnote 404: Lactantius, 1. 22; Serv. _Aen._ 8. 314. Footnote 405: Preuner, _Hestia-Vesta_, 407 foll. For Lucina, Gilbert, l. c. Footnote 406: The combination of the idea of female fecundity with that of the earth is of course common enough. Here is a good example from Abyssinia: ‘She (Atetie) is the goddess of fecundity, and women are her principal votaries; but, as she can also make the earth prolific, offerings are made to her for that purpose’ (Macdonald, _Religion and Myth_, p. 42). Footnote 407: _Fasti_, 5. 421 foll.