[308] In the Graeco-Roman age Mars seems to have been rather a favourite subject of myth-making; see Usener's article on Italian myths in Rhein. Mus. vol. xxx.; Roscher in Myth. Lex. for works of Graeco-Etruscan art in which he appears in certain mythical scenes.
[309] H. Jordan, quoted in R.F. p. 61 note. I relegate to an appendix what needs to be said about the other pairs of deities mentioned by Gellius.
[310] Leipzig, 1898, p. 7 foll.
[311] Wissowa, R.K. p. 168. Carter, op. cit. p. 21.
[312] See Buecheler, Umbrica, pp. 22 and 98.
[313] So Fides is usually explained, as originally belonging to Jupiter (Wissowa, R.K. p. 103 foll.); but a different view is taken by Harold L. Axtell in his work on the Deification of Abstract Ideas at Rome (Chicago, 1907), p. 20.
[314] In the Festschrift f. O. Hirschfeld, p. 243 foll.
[315] Religion of the Babylonians, introductory chapter.
[316] Op. cit. p. 412.
[317] L.L. v. 64.