[506]. Roscher’s treatment of Juno Moneta (Lex. s. v. Iuno, 593) seems to me pure fancy; this writer is apt to twist his facts and his inferences to suit a prepossession—in this case the notion of a ἱερὸς γάμος of Jupiter and Juno.
[507]. Liv. 7. 28; Ovid, Fasti, 6. 183; Macrob. 1. 12. 30.
[508]. On this point see Lewis, Credibility of Early Roman Hist. vol. ii. 345.
[509]. Dionys., 13. 7, says, Χῆνες ἱεροὶ περὶ τὸν νεὼν τῆς Ἥρας; but this is no evidence for an early temple of Juno Moneta.
[510]. Apparently she was fond of such birds: crows also were ‘in tutela Iunonis’ at a certain spot north of the Tiber (Paul. 64), and at Lanuvium (Preller, i. 283).
[511]. Liv. 6. 20.
[512]. I have assumed that Moneta is connected with moneo; but there are other views (Roscher, Lex. 593). Livius Andronicus (ap. Priscian, p. 679) helps us to the meaning by translating Μνημοσύνη (of the Odyssey) by Moneta.
[513]. Macrob. Sat. 1. 12. 22 and 31. There was no temple of Carna there but Tertullianus (ad Nat. 2. 9) mentions a fanum.
[514]. Cp. also the explanation from iuniores (e. g. in Ovid, Fasti, 6. 83 foll.).
[515]. Macrob. 1. 12. 33 ‘Cui pulte fabacia et larido sacrificatur.’