On the name of the mensis Junius some remarks have already been made under May 1. There is no sure ground for connecting it with Juno[505]. The first day of June was sacred to her, but so were all Kalends; and if this was also the _dies natalis_ of the temple of Juno Moneta _in arce_, we have no reason to suppose the choice of day to be specially significant[506]. We know the date of this dedication; it was in 344 B.C. and in consequence of a vow made by L. Furius Camillus Dictator in a war against the Aurunci[507]. Of a Juno Moneta of earlier date we have no knowledge; and, in spite of much that has been said to the contrary, I imagine that the title was only given to a Juno of the _arx_ in consequence of the popular belief that the Capitol was saved from the attack of the Gauls (390 B.C.) by the warning voices of her sacred geese. What truth there was in that story may be a matter of doubt, but it seems easier to believe that it had a basis of fact than to account for it aetiologically[508]. There may well have been an altar or _sacellum_[509] of Juno on the _arx_, near which her noisy birds were kept[510]; and when a temple was eventually built here in 344 B.C., it was appropriately dedicated to Juno of the warning voice. From the fact that part of this temple was used as a mint[511], the word _Moneta_ gradually passed into another sense, which has found its way into our modern languages[512]. One tradition connected the name of the month with M. Junius Brutus, who is said to have performed a _sacrum_ on this day after the flight of Tarquinius, on the Caelian Hill[513]. This _sacrum_ had no connexion with Juno, and the tradition which thus absurdly brings Brutus into the question shows plainly that the derivation from Juno was not universally accepted[514]. The real deity of the Kalends of June was not Juno, but an antique goddess whose antiquity is attested both by the meagreness of our knowledge of her, and the strange confusion about her which Ovid displays. Had Carna been more successful in the struggle for existence of Roman deities, we might not have been so sure of her extreme antiquity; but no foreign cult grafted on her gave her a new lease of life, and by the end of the Republic she was all but dead.