Footnote 512:
I have assumed that _Moneta_ is connected with _moneo_; but there are
other views (Roscher, _Lex._ 593). Livius Andronicus (ap. Priscian, p.
679) helps us to the meaning by translating Μνημοσύνη (of the
_Odyssey_) by _Moneta_.
Footnote 513:
Macrob. _Sat._ 1. 12. 22 and 31. There was no temple of Carna there
but Tertullianus (_ad Nat._ 2. 9) mentions a _fanum_.
Footnote 514:
Cp. also the explanation from _iuniores_ (e. g. in Ovid, _Fasti_, 6.
83 foll.).
Footnote 515:
Macrob. 1. 12. 33 ‘Cui pulte fabacia et larido sacrificatur.’
Footnote 516:
Even in the fourth century A.D. this was so: see the calendar of
Philocalus.
Footnote 517:
Colum. II. 2. 20; Pallad. 7. 3; Hartmann, _Das Röm. Kal._ 135.
Footnote 518:
_H. N._ 18. 117.
Footnote 519:
See above on Lemuria, p. 110.
Footnote 520:
_de Feriis_, xiii.
Footnote 521:
_C. I. L._ iii. 3893.
Footnote 522:
There is really nothing in common between the two: see Wissowa in
_Lex._ s. v. Carna, following Merkel, clxv. What the real etymology of
Carna may be is undecided; Curtius and others have connected it with
_cor_, and on this O. Gilbert has built much foolish conjecture (ii.
19 foll.). I would rather compare it with the words Garanus or
Recaranus of the Hercules legend (Bréal, _Herc. et Cacus_, pp. 59,
60), and perhaps with Gradivus, Grabovius. The name of the ‘nymph’
Cranae in Ovid’s account is in some MSS. Grane or Crane. H. Peter
(_Fasti_, pt. ii. p. 89) adopts the connexion with _caro_: she is ‘die
das Fleisch kräftigende Göttin’ (cp. Ossipago).
Footnote 523:
_Fasti_, 6. 169-182. Lines 101-130 are concerned with Cardea; 130 to
168, or the middle section of the comment, seem, as Marquardt
suggested (p. 13, note), to be referable to Carna (as the averter of
_striges_), though the charms fixed on the _postes_ show that Ovid is
still confounding her with Cardea.
Footnote 524:
The word _strix_ is Greek, or at least identical with the Greek word.
But the belief in vampires is so widely spread (cf. Tylor, _Prim.
Cult._ ii. 175 foll.) that we must not conclude hastily that it came
to Italy with the Greeks: it is met with as early as Plautus (_Pseud._
3. 2. 20). Cf. Pliny, _H. N._ 11. 232.
Footnote 525:
_Fasti_, 6. 155 foll.
Footnote 526:
The _arbutus_ does not seem to be mentioned in connexion with charms
except in this passage; we might have expected the laurel. Bötticher,
_Baumkultus_, 324.
Footnote 527:
The sucking-pig is sacrificed, as we gather from _prosecta_ below; i.
e. to Carna: cp. the cakes of _lard_ eaten this day (169 foll.).
Footnote 528:
Cp. in the process of ghost-laying (above, p. 109) the prohibition to
look at the beans scattered.
Footnote 529:
For the blackthorn (Germ. _Weissdorn_) see Bötticher, _Baumkultus_,
361. Varro, ap. Charisium, p. 117 ‘fax ex spinu alba praefertur, quod
purgationis causa adhibetur.’
Footnote 530:
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