[576]. Seneca, Ep. 12. 2.
[577]. See below, on Aug. 12, p. [194].
[578]. This seems a weak point. Bona Dea was not more closely related to Juno than some others. I do not feel sure that the name Juno is not as much an intrusion here as Hercules, and that the real female counterpart of Genius, &c., was not a nameless numen like the Bona Dea. The rise of the cult of Juno Lucina may have produced this intrusion. It is worth noting that in Etruria Minerva takes the place of Juno (Lex. 2266, and the illustration on 2267).
[579]. Serv. Ecl. 4. 62.
[580]. Paulus, 63.
[581]. Gerhard, Etruskische Spiegel, 147. It is also figured in Lex. s. v. Hercules, 2259.
[582]. e. g. by every writer in Roscher’s Lexicon who has touched on the subject. Jordan seems to have dissented (Preller, ii. 284).
[583]. The opposition or conflict of the two is paralleled by the supposed myth of the contention of Mars and Minerva (Nerio) (see above, p. [60]; Lex. 2265).
[584]. See article ‘Iunones’ in Lex.; and De-Marchi, La Religione nella vita domestica, p. 70.
[585]. Roscher’s article ‘Juno’ in Lex. passim.