[152] Wavrin, John de, Chronicles.
[153] This name is supposed to have meant a miser or father of pennies. The penny is said to have been so named from the pen or head figured upon it.
[154] Hone, W., Everyday Book, i., col. 566.
[155] The New English Dictionary notes the following “forms” of “pigeon,” pejon, pejoun, pegion, pegyon, pigin, pigen, pigion, pygon. The supposed connection between pigeon and pipio, “I chirp,” is surely remote, for young pigeons do not “chirp”.
[156] Mrs. Hamilton Gray in The Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria, writes: “I was particularly struck with one large carved group, which bore a greater resemblance to a Hindoo representation of a trinity than anything not Indian I have ever seen. Did we not know the thing to be impossible, I should be tempted on the strength of this sculptured stone to assert that Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu must at some former period have found adorers in Etruria. Three monstrous faces, growing together, one full face in the middle and a profile on each side” (p. 309).
[157] The official etymology of June is “probably from root of Latin juvenis, junior,” but where is the sense in this?
[158] Baring-Gould, S., Curious Myths, p. 5.
[159] Curious Myths, p. 23.
[160] Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria, pp. 187, 189.
[161] Hell., c. xx.