[451]. On Regina coeli, see Jablonski, Opuscula, II. 54 et seq. (ed. Te Water).
[452]. In Fox Talbot, quoted by Schrader, Die Höllenfahrt der Istar, p. 98.
[453]. Zeitschr. d. D. M. G., 1873, XXVII. p. 404.
[454]. G. Rawlinson, History of Herodotus, App. B. I., Essay X. (I. 484).
[455]. Schwartz, Sonne, Mond und Sterne, 269, 274.
[456]. See especially Osiander in the Zeitsch, d. D. M. G., 1865, XIX. 242 et seq.
[457]. In Yâḳût, IV. 406.
[458]. The constant epithet ‘holding the seed of bulls’ brings to view the idea that the influence of the moon produces fertility in cattle (Spiegel, Die heiligen Schriften der Parsen [in German], III. xxi.). According to Yasht, VII. 5, it is the moon ‘that produces verdure, that produces good things.’ Compare Catullus, XXXII (XXXIV) v. 17–20, where the poet apostrophises the Moon—
Tu cursu, Dea, menstruo
Metiens iter annuum,