Signatus tenui media inter cornua nigro
Una fuit labes; cœtera lactis erant.
Ovidius, De Arte Amandi.
[491] In Diodoros, Hammon loves the virgin Amalthea, who has a horn resembling that of an ox. The goat and the cow in the lunar and cloudy myth are the same; and on this account we find them both in connection with the apple-tree, a vegetable form, and with the cornucopia, since both are seers, and spies, and guides. The golden doe is a variation of the same lunar myth.
[492] Argonantikôn, iii. 410, 1277.
[493] Nonnos, Dionysiakôn, xi. 113 and following.
[494] Orestês, 1380.
[495] Ergazoménous Bóas.—In the twelfth book of his History of Animals, Ælianos writes: "Among the Phrygians, if any one kills a working ox, he atones for it with his life." And Varro, De Re Rusticâ: "Bos socius hominum in rustico opere et Cereris minister. Ab hoc antiqui ita manus abstineri voluerunt ut capite sanxerint si quis occidisset."
[496] Scriptores Historiæ Augustæ, Lampridius, in the life of Heliogabalus.
[497] vii. 3.
[498] Fasti, iii. 800.