Mommsen, Die echte und die falsche Acca Larentia, 3 A. 3.

[93]

Jordan, Krit. Beitr., 75, compares Italian atta, "mother" and Greek ἀκκώ?

[94]

"E nos Lases iuvate" = Age nos, Lares, iuvate.

[95]

The classical references on this subject of beans are: Diog. Laert., viii. 24 and 34 (quoting Aristotle, ἤτοι ὅτι αἰδοίοις εἰσὶν ὅμοιοι), Gellius, N. A., iv. 11; Cic., de Div., i. 30, ii. 58; Pliny N. H., xviii. 12; Didymus in Geopon., ii. 58; Sext. Emp., Pyrrh. Hyp., iii. 224; Iambl., Vit. Pyth., 109 and Protrept. extr. Symb., 37; Anon. (e. Photio), Vit. Pyth., 7; Pseudo-Orig., Philos. ii.; Apollon. Dysc., Mirab. Hist., c. 46; Eudocia, p. 368; Suidas, s. v. Συμβ. Πυθαγ..; Eustath., N., p. 948.

[96]

For its meaning as a symbol, see Westropp, Primitive Symbolism, p. 28.

[97]