Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

Diana and the Oak

401 s

Vicus Cuprius, where the Clivus Virbius turns to the right and leads
up the Fagutal onto the Esquiline1. The existence of oaks on the
Esquiline can be inferred from its chapel of the Lares QnerqueUilani'1.

{Corp. inscr. Lat. iii no. 1948 (Salonae in Dalmatia) Iovi O(pt)imo | Maximo | Celesli
Patrono | G. Caesius Corymjbus et Faberia | Cara v.s.l.m., no. 8668 = Dessau Inscr. Lat.
sel. no. 3041 (Salonae in Dalmatia) T. Pinarius Eros | Iovi Caelesti v.s.jl. m., Corp. inscr.
Lat. x no. 4852 = Orelli—Henzen Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 5618 (Venafrum) cult(ores) Iovis
Cae(lestis) j etc., Corp. inscr. Lat. xi no. 5643 (M-atilica in Umbria) N. Ortori[us] | N. f.
Pol(lia) I Ferox | Aesae | evocatus Aug. | Iovi Caelesti | v.s.l.m., cp. Cic. de har. resp. 10,
Liv. 1. 32), Caelestinus (Corp. inscr. Lat. vi no. 404 with Add. no. 30756 = Orelli Lnscr.
Lat. sel. no. 1223 = Dessau Lnscr. Lat. sel. no. 3062 (Rome) Iovi Optimo Maximo j

Fig- 303.

Caelestino, Fontibus, et | Minervae, et collegio | sanctissimo, quod consis|tit in praedis
Larci Mace^onis (cos. suff. in 122 A.D.) | in curia, | Flavius Successus cum suis. ||
T. Flavius j Successus | d.d., on which see G. Wissowa in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc.
iii. 1247), caelipotens (Plaut. Pers. 755). Popular etymology has often been pressed into
the service of religion.

1 Liv. 1. 48, Solin. r. 25.

2 Varr. de ling. Lat. 5. 49 secundae regionis Esquili[n]ae. alii (grain/naticae atite-
varronianae ex incertis incertorum libris frag. 8 Funaioli) has scripserunt ab excubiis
regis dictas (cp. Ov. fast. 3. 245 f.), alii ab eo quod excultae (A. Spengel cj. aescul<is

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