277. "Quis ignorat vel dictum vel conditum a Jano Janiculum?" Solinus, II. 3, quoted by Ampère.
"Arx mea collis erat, quem cultrix nomine nostro
Nuncupat hæc ætas, Janiculumque vocat."—Fasti, I. 245.
279. Mater Matuta ("matutina," matinal) was a Latin goddess of the dawn, who was absorbed into Juno, as often happened to the old Italian deities. Hartung says: "There was no limit to the superficial levity with which the Romans changed their worship."
280. The Etruscans worshipped a goddess named Menerfa or Menfra.—Heffter.
281. Heffter, p. 525. Cloaca is derived from cluere, which means to wash away. Libertina or Libitina is the goddess of funerals.
282. Republic, II. 19.
283. Hartung.
284. "Diis quos superiores et involutes vocant."—Seneca, Quæst. Nat., II. 41.
285. "De re rustica"; quoted by Merivale in the Preface to The Conversion of the Roman Empire.