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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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328 lupiter and lanus <strong>in</strong> the Salian Hymn<br />

differently. A remarkable <strong>in</strong>scription engraved on a small altar<br />

found. at Aquileia records the worship of lupiter Optiimis Maximus<br />

Co<strong>in</strong>servator) et Ambisagrics'^. The last title is commonly regarded<br />

as quite obscure-. But <strong>in</strong> view of our co<strong>in</strong> it becomes transparently<br />

simple. Ambisagriis is vulgar Lat<strong>in</strong> for A<strong>in</strong>bisacrus^ and means<br />

' Sacred on both sides'*.' It implies that the lupiter <strong>in</strong> question was<br />

a god resembl<strong>in</strong>g the two-faced lanus. Accord<strong>in</strong>gly, we are not<br />

surprised to discover that <strong>in</strong> the same town Aquileia there was a<br />

cult of lupiter Dianiis^—an <strong>ancient</strong> form of lanus identified with<br />

the later lupiter. It is hardly accidental that this Janiform lupiter<br />

occurs <strong>in</strong> a district which was permeated with Celtic <strong>in</strong>fluences.<br />

(^) lupiter and lanus <strong>in</strong> the Salian Hymn.<br />

The rapprocJie<strong>in</strong>eiit between lanus on the one hand and <strong>Zeus</strong> or<br />

lupiter on the other is attested, not only by August<strong>in</strong>e" and Proklos'^<br />

<strong>in</strong> the fifth century A.D., but also—to all appearance—by a Salian<br />

hymn which is one of the very oldest specimens of the Lat<strong>in</strong><br />

language^<br />

^ Corp. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. v no. 790.<br />

^ M. Ihm <strong>in</strong> Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 1 (' 799 Zweifelhaft, ob Name e<strong>in</strong>es Gottes...<br />

Man konnte eher an e<strong>in</strong>en Be<strong>in</strong>amen des luppiter denken'), Thes. L<strong>in</strong>g. Lat. i. 1851, 47<br />

('z'/jf recte <strong>in</strong>tellegitur'').<br />

^ Cp. Corp. <strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. xiv no. 3571 =E. Diehl Vulgdrlateitiische Inschriften Bonn<br />

1910 p. 42 no. 456 (Tibur) Erchul |<br />

sagrum<br />

{ = Hcradi sacriuti). T. Mommsen <strong>in</strong> Corp.<br />

<strong>in</strong>scr. Lat. v. 11 79 pr<strong>in</strong>ts 'lupiter optimus maximus co(nservator) et Ambisager.' But the<br />

term<strong>in</strong>ation -sagrus is supported by [_^jAl

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