[1364] As, for example, 'fragile' and 'frail,' 'intension' and 'intention,' 'providential' and 'prudential,' and many other groups of this sort.
[1365] For the view that she was a native Ægean deity see Farnell, Greece and Babylon, p. 97. Later Semitic influences, in any case, must be assumed.
[1366] No satisfactory explanation of the name Aphrodite has as yet been offered.
[1367] See above, § 762.
[1368] Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite; Euripides, Medea, 835 ff.; Lucretius. Ishtar also is the mother of all things, but the idea is not developed by the Semites.
[1369] Compare the details given in J. Rosenbaum's Geschichte der Lustseuche im Alterume.
[1370] Aust, Religion der Römer; Fowler, Roman Festivals; id. The Religious Experience of the Roman People; articles in Roscher's Lexikon; Mommsen, History of Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. i, chap. xii.
[1371] § 702 ff.
[1372] Hence a confusion of names that appears even to-day, and in books otherwise careful, as, for example, in the Bohn translations of Greek works, in which the Greek deities are throughout called by Latin names.
[1373] So written in good manuscripts. The "piter" probably denotes fatherly protection, though it may have meant originally physical paternity. On this point cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, lecture ii, and the various stories of the birth of Jupiter's children.