Wissowa in _Myth. Lex._ s. v. Mater Matuta, 2463. Footnote 624: Ovid, _Fasti_, 6. 473 foll.; Cic. _Nat. Deor._ 3. 48; _Tusc._ 1. 28. Plutarch (_Quaest. Rom._ 16. 1) noted a likeness between her cult and that of Leucothea in his own city of Chaeroneia; an interesting passage, though quite inconclusive as to the Greek origin of Mater Matuta. Plutarch, like Servius (_Aen._ 5. 241) and others, has adopted Ovid’s legend of Ino by way of explanation of the identity of Leucothea and Matuta. Merkel (_Fasti_, clxxxiv) believed the cult to be wholly Greek; Bouché-Leclercq (_Hist. de Divination_, iv. 147) follows Klausen in identifying Mater Matuta with Tethys (cf. Plut. _Rom._ 2) and with the deity of the oracle at Pyrgi. But see Wesseling on Diod. Sic. 15, p. 337; and Strabo, Bk. 5, p. 345. Footnote 625: _C. I. L._ i. 176, 177. Footnote 626: Liv. 6. 33. 4; Wissowa, _Lex._ 2462. Footnote 627: Diod. Sic. 15. 14, p. 337, and Wesseling’s note. The temple at Pyrgi was an important one, and rich enough to be plundered by Dionysius I of Syracuse. But it must be admitted that the identification of the deity of Pyrgi with Mater Matuta is not absolutely certain. Strabo, l. c., calls her Eileithyia, Aristotle (_Oecon._ 1349 b) Leucothea; and it is thought that Mater Matuta alone combines the characteristics of these two. If, however, the goddess of Pyrgi was the deity of the oracle, she might almost as well have been a Fortuna, like those of Antium and Praeneste. Footnote 628: Tertullian, _de Monogam_. 17. Footnote 629: Ovid, _Fasti_, 6. 481, with Plut. _Q. R._ 16; _Camill._ 5. Footnote 630: Varro, _L. L._ 5. 106. Ovid (482) writes of _liba tosta_, i. e. cakes cooked in pans rather than baked, like the _mola salsa_. See above, p. 149; and cp. Ovid, 532 ‘in subito cocta foco.’ Footnote 631: Plut. ll. cc.; Ovid, 559 foll. Footnote 632: See below on Jan. 11. I cannot explain the rule that a woman prayed for nephews and nieces before her own children, which is peculiar to this cult. Footnote 633: Preller, i. 322; Wissowa in _Lex_. Footnote 634: _R. H._ (Eng. trans.) i. 162. Footnote 635: Lucr. 5. 654. Footnote 636: Paulus, 122 ‘Matrem Matutam antiqui ob bonitatem appellabant, et maturum idoneum usui,’ &c. See also Curtius, _Gk. Etym._ I. 408. Footnote 637: _Fasti_, 6. 569 foll.; 625 foll.: cp. Dionysius, 4. 40. Ovid has three fanciful explanations of the draping. Footnote 638: Ovid, l.c.; Dionys. 4. 40. Footnote 639: Varro ap. Nonium, p. 189; Plin. _N. H._ 8. 194, 197. See Schwegler, _R. G._ i. 712, note 3, and a full discussion in _Lex_. by R. Peter, s.v. Fortuna, p. 1509. Footnote 640: Dio Cassius, 58. 7. Footnote 641: