267. Christianity and Greek Philosophy. By B. F. Cocker, D.D. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1870.
268. See Neander, Church History, Vol I. p. 88, American edition.
269. Hegel's Philosophic in Wörtlichen Ausüzgen. Berlin, 1843.
270. Romische Geschichte, von Theodor Mommsen, Kap. XII.
271. Janus, Picus, Faunus, Romulus, were indigites. Funke, Real Lexicon.
272. See Niebuhr's Lectures on the History of Rome, for facts concerning the Siculi. The sound el appears in Keltic, Gael, Welsch, Welsh, Belgians, Gauls, Galatians, etc. M. Grotefend (as quoted by Guigniaut, in his notes to Creuzer) accepts this Keltic origin of the Siculi, believing that they entered Italy from the northwest, and were gradually driven farther south till they reached Sicily. Those who expelled them were the Pelasgic races, who passed from Asia, south of the Caspian and Black Seas, through Asia Minor and Greece, preceding the Hellenic races. This accounts for the statement of Herodotus that the Pelasgi came from Lydia in Asia Minor, without our being obliged to assume that they came by sea,—a fact highly improbable. They were called Tyrrheanians, not from any city or king of Lydia, but, as M. Lepsius believes, from the Greek τύῤῥις (Latin, turris), a tower, because of their Cyclopean masonry. The Roman state, on this supposition, may have owed its origin to the union of the two great Aryan races, the Kelts and Pelasgi.
273. Mythologie der Griechen und Romer, von Dr. M. W. Heffter. Leipzig, 1854.
274. And so our word "janitor" comes to us from this very old Italian deity.
275. Ampère, L'Histoire Romaine.
276. This seems to us more probable than Buttman's opinion, that the temple of Janus was originally by the gate of the city, which gate was open in war and closed in peace. In practice, it would probably be different.