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366 Water-carrying and the Danaides

Tullianum at Rome1 and—perhaps one should add—the well-
chamber at Tusculum2. In neither case have we the slightest reason
to connect the structure with the Daunioi. It cannot, therefore, be
claimed that the role played by the Daunioi in Italy answers to that
played by Danaos and his daughters in Greece.

But here a further possibility has to be faced. If the Danaoi
were indeed Illyrian *Danf-aoi, and if the Daunioi were a branch
of the same stock transplanted to Apulia, we can hardly avoid the
conclusion that both tribal names are akin to that of the great river
Danuvius (Danube), which in turn—as O. Schrader3 points out—lS
certainly related to the river-names Ddnapris (Dnieper) and
Ddnastris (Dniester), and probably to the Thracian Sdn-danos, the
Thessalian Api-dands, the Italian Eri-dands, and the Celto-Ligunafl
Rlio-dands, if not also to the Scythian Tdnais. Danuvius and its
cognates must moreover be connected with the Avestan d&nu-,
'river,' and the Ossetic don, 'water' (whence Don, the modern name
of the Tdnais). On this showing, the Danaoi and the Daunioi both
bore a name that meant the 'River-folk' or 'Water-folk.' That, one
imagines, would have signified, at least primarily, the folk that dwelt
along the River or beside the Water. Secondarily such folk, since
they lived beside the water-ways, might be expected to know the
ways of water, and would thus come to be regarded as good water
magicians or experts in irrigation. Now it is commonly admit ^
that the name Danuvius is of Celtic origin4. And, this being s0>

1 H. Jordan Topographic der Stadt Rom im Alterthum Berlin 1S82 1. i> 'S ' j
453 ff-, 505 ff., 1885 i. 2. 323 ff., O. Richter Topographic der Stadt Rom- MUnchen 19
p. 80 f., S. B. Platner The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome Boston y^.
pp. 92, 240ff. fig. 57, H. Kiepert et C. Huelsen Formae urbis Romae antiqt'ae"^eI°reV.
1912 pp. 66, 142, W.J. Anderson—R. P. Spiers The Architecture of Ancient R°m* ^
by T. Ashby London 1927 p. 2 f. (comparing early cisterns on the Palatine {to. P'gjrf.
G. Cozzo Ingegneria romana Roma 1928 p. 169 pi. 38 fig. 77)), D. S. Robertson^

book of Greek cV Roman Architecture Cambridge 1929 p. 337, S. B. Platner *1

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome Oxford 1929 p. 99 f. ^ gell

2 L. Canina Descrizione delP antico Tusculo Roma 1841 p. 123 pis. 14—16, Sir ' '^jjfc
—E. H. Bunbury The Topography of Rome and its Vicinity London 1846 P- 43° ' ef
3 figs., R. Burn Rome and the Campagna Cambridge 1876 p. 379, T. Ashby in

the British School at Rome 1910 v. 6 p. 357 ff. pi. 30, 2 (photograph of the COM" '
The Roman Campagna in Classical Times London 1927 p. 169 f. slaV-

3 Schrader Reallex." i. 329 ' Lateinisch-keltisch Ddnuvius, ahd. Tu0"°f"^c\i in
Dunavil verbinden sich mit aw. ddnu- "Fluss", osset. don " Wasser", das sic ^^.^en
Danapris (Dniepr) nnd Danastrus (Dniestr), sowie vielleicht auch in dem tn^t\sch-
San-danus, dem thessalischen 'ATri-RavSs, dem italischen 'Hpi-5avis und dem ^ ^s0
ligurischen Rho-danus (vgl. auch den skythischen Tcbtus?) anzunehmen is ■ gerjj0-—
W. Sturmfels Etymologisches Lexikon deutscher und fremdldndischer Ortsna'i"

Bonn 1925 p. 41 f. s.v. ' Don.' aber, fl*5

4 C. G. Brandis in Pauly—Wissowa Rcal-Enc. iv. 2105 'In der lnat