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lanus an older lupiter
yawning void\ Others, under the influence of Orphism^ saw in him
' a power that controls the two Bears and sends divine souls to join
the lunar danced' And of course the solar mythologists of the re-
public^ and the empire' claimed him for their own. Another natural
extension of meaning transformed the sky-god into a time-god**. He
was god of the day''. He was god of the months^ He was god of
the seasons I He was god of the year^". He was god of eternity,
^ Infra Append. G vied.
2 Cp. Prokl. h. 6 {supra p. 328 n. 7).
* Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (who died in 384 A.D. : see M. Schanz Geschichte der
rdinischen Litteratur MUnchen 1904 iv. i. 128 f.) ap. Lyd. de mens. 4. 2 p. 65, 20 ff.
Wiinsch 6 Se IIpatT^^Taros 6 i€po(pdvTris, 6 SajTrdrpy re rip TeXeffTJj /coi KuvaTavTiviij t^J
avTOKpoLTLOpi avWa^div eirl tuj 7ro\i(r,u(j5 Trjs evdalfj-ovos TaijTr)^ jroXewj, Sivafxw avrbv dfal
Tiva. ^ovXerai i' tKarepas "ApKTOv T€Tayixivqv Kai ras deiorepas \pvxo-^ ^""i rhv aeXrjfiaKov
XOpov a.TroirifJiTrfii'.
* Lutatius (Q. Lutatius Catulus, not his learned slave Lutatius Daphnis : see M. Schanz
op. eii.^ MUnchen 1898 i. 136) ap. Lyd. de mens. 4. 2 p. 65, 15 ff. Wiinsch 76 yij\v
\ovrA,rios (^Hist. Rom. frag. p. 127 Peter) "HXtoj' Trapd rd eKar^pas TriJXijs dpxfiv, dvaToXfjs
ifffus Kal 5v(X€ws.
^ Macrob. Sat. i. 9. 9 lanum quidam solem demonstrari volunt, etc., i. 17. 42 unde
nos quoque lanum patrem vocamus, solem sub hac appellatione venerantes, cp. Arnob. adv.
nat. 3. 29 cited i>ifra n. 10.
^ Nemes. cyneg. 104 lanus, teniporis auctor. Cp. infra n. 8.
^ Serv. in Vtrg. Aen. 7. 607 nam alii eum diei dominum [vel auctorem] volunt, in quo
ortus est et occasus, Myth. Vat. 3. 4. 9 a nonnullis diei dicitur deus, bifronsque propter
ortum et occasum pingitur.
8 Macrob. Sat. i. 9. 16 lunonium, quasi non solum mensis lanuarii sed mensium
omnium ingressus tenentem ; in ditione autem lunonis sunt omnes Kalendae, unde et
Varro libro quinto Rerum divinarum scribit lano duodecim aras pro totidem mensibus
dedicatas, Lyd. de mens. 4. 2 p. 65, 3 ff. Wiinsch ^oiTijlbs (so C. Wachsmuth for (ppov-
T-fiCos: see further Kappelmacher in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 2842, and for lanus
on coins of the gens Fonleia infra § 3 (a) v (0)) 5e iv rcj} w^pl dya\iJ.6.r(jjv i