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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Zeus and the Earthquakes 23

shook*.' Scholars have assumed that the god in question was
Poseidon *. But the analogy of similar expressions relating to me
weather points to the possibility that the name suppressed was thai
of Zeus3. And certainly in late times earthquakes were reckoned as
a particular variety of Zeus-sign [Diosemidf.

The Romans exhibited, on the whole, a more marked tendency
towards cautious anonymity. They said that once during an eait -
quake a voice was heard from the temple of Iuno on the Capito
directing them to sacrifice a pregnant sow—a direction which earned
for the goddess the title of Moneta*. A pregnant sow was onotha
occasions sacrificed to Tellus6 or Terra Mater7 or Ceres8 or Maia

1 Xen. Bell. 4. 7. 4 ftr— 0 6e6s, Paus. 3. 5- 8 re «, 0 M., cp. Aristoph. Lys.

"42 eeh aelay d'Ma, Paus. r. 29. 8 Aa«J«uMoi.lo« & *o\iv rov Beov ™°avJ°^ s'
ov Traplet (relay 6 fleos, s. 8. 4 rov tfcoO aelaayroi, Dion Cass. 68. 25 aeLovros Tov •

' Schol. Aristoph. Zy,. Ji4., cp. Aristoph. AC, 510 f. «** 6 no„«8S,oW Ta^W
(ToiKdpou v.l. in Souid. J.w. Ta(capov) fltos | <re(cras aTrac-ir l^aUi ras okias.

3 .Sw/ra ii. 1 ff. 4 5«/ra ii. 5- , •

5 Cic. & div. 1. 101 (cp. 2. 69) with a useful note by A. S. Pease ad loc The den
lion of from moneo (Cic. »*. 2. 69, Isid. orig. 16. 18. 8, cp. bouid. s- '

Hence also Moneta as Latinised Mnemosyne in Livius Andromcus frag. 26 of.
'»st. 6. 6 (i. j98 Hertz), Cic. de not. dear. 3. 47- Hyg. fab. praef. pp. to, 4 » 'a/
Schmidt) is merely folk-etymology. The attempt to connect it with the Semiti ^ ^.
'camp,' a legend found on silver Carthaginian coins current in Sicily and Italy ^
Punic wars (E. Assmann 'Moneta' in Klio 1906 vi. 477—488, V. Costana 1
1907 vii. 335—340, G. F. Hill Historical Roman Coins London 1909 p. », a. . ^
'Juno Moneta' in the Num. Chron. Fourth Series 1910 x. 1-12) is more ;ngen ^
probable. Relation to Gothic tnentfis, Old High German mOnSt, 'month, impiy s,
Moneta was a moon-goddess (K. F. Johansson Beitrdge zur grxuhuchtn *Prac
(= Upsala Universitets Arsskrift 1890 Abh. in) Upsala 1891 P- »9 ^^2r eine
account for her S. Walde ia/. Worterb? p. 493 concludes. Worn vie

Bildung vom Namenstamme, der in Monnius, Monianius usw. (Schu ze IMg • »
vorliegt, vgl. zum Suffix Omto, etr. Umte, Ztfto, Volutins: Val(t)ius b^.1^9^
dass eine SondergSttin einer etrusk. gens Moneta vorliegt im Sinne Otto s Kn. 1

^Fest. p. 238. 28 f. Muller, p. 274, 6 Lindsay plena sue Tellu<ri ^rfficabatur
j* J" J" danger) >, Ov. 1. 671 ff. placentur frugum matres, WtagOj-gl
farre suo gravidae visceribusque suis. | officium commune Ceres et lerra 1
Praebet causam frugibus, ilia locum, Arnob. adv. not. 7- " Tellun, inquiunt, matr
mciens (sic vet. lib. Ernstii, marg. Ursini. ingens codd.) immolatuC et feta, etc

7 Corp. i„SCr. Lat. vi no. 323*3, i36f. = Dessau Inscr. Lat sel. no.jo^"J^*
noimm satcularium for June 2, 17 B.c.) Terra mater ! uti t.bi «1S >'!f S ;,ena
«. quarumque rerum ergo quodque melius siet p. R. Quiritibus.] | ut. BU« I

Pr°Pri[a.....sacrum fiat. te quaeso precorque; c]etera [uti supra.] Cp. orac - f

PMegon 20. (/V(^. to r>. Hi. 611 Muller) and op. Zosim. 2. MP- J •
Eekker) = Cougny Ant,, Pal. Append. 6. 2,4. .of. «M< «> 1** I
If**™ tfK„Z lQ Dessau after Mommsen. The MS. of Fblegon has^ X f>
«ft lepevo(TO ^xa, Zosimos ives tX^o/^b X«^» ™ roi Cs ^ V'nmnis nuam

fc 8 V-g- W .. 345 ff. terque novas circum felix eat host.a fruges, \ omms q
chorus et socii comitentur ovantes, | et Cererem clamore vocent in tecta. serv. d^
W >• 345 'felix hostia' id est fecunda. dicit autem ambarvale ^^"^ autem
Porca et saepe fecunda et gravida fieri consueverat, Macrob. Sat. 3. 1 •
 
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