a personification of an abstraction,
like Ops, Fides, and Salus. See Axtell, _Deification of
abstract idea in Roman literature_, p. 9, with whom I
agree in rejecting the notion of Marquardt and Wissowa
that she was a deity of horticulture. He rightly points
out that she is not included in the list of agricultural
deities in Varro, _R.R._ i. 1. 6.

[494] See Aust in his article "Jupiter" in the _Myth.
Lex._ p. 689, where the evidence for the contemporaneous
origin of the temple on the Alban hill and that on the
Capitol is fully stated. In this case excavations have
confirmed the Roman tradition, which ascribed the former
temple to one or other of the Tarquinii. Jordan, _Roem.
Top._ i. pt. 2. p. 9.

[495] See the speech of Claudius the emperor, _C.I.L._
xiii. 1668, printed in Furneaux' _Tacitus' Annals_, vol.
ii. Gardthausen, _Mastarna_, p. 40; Mueller-Deecke,
_Etrusker_, i. 111. For the Etruscan name Mastarna, see
Dennis, _Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_^3, ii. 506
foll.: Gardthausen gives a cut of the painting found in
a tomb at Vulci in which he appears with the name
attached. Even the ultra-sceptical Pais does not doubt
the fact of an Etruscan domination in Rome; but he does
not believe the Tarquinii and Mastarna to have been
historical personages, and will not date the temples
attributed to this age earlier than the fourth century
B.C. See his _Ancient Legends of Roman History_, ch.
vii.; _Storia di Roma_, i. 310 foll. But the names of
these kings do not concern us, except so far as they
connect Etruria with Roman history in the sixth century.

[496] Cic. _Rep._ ii. 24. 44; Livy i. 38. and 55;
Dionys. iii. 69; iv. 59. 61. The whole evidence will be
found collected in Jordan, _Topogr._ i. pt. ii. p. 9
foll., and in Aust, _Myth. Lex._, _s.v._ Jupiter, p. 706
foll. If the date 509 were seriously impugned Roman
chronology would be in confusion, for this is believed
to be the earliest date on which we can rely, and on it
the subsequent chronology hangs: Mommsen, _Roem.
Chronologie_, ed. 2, p. 198.

[497] Aust, p. 707 foll.; Jordan, _op. cit._, p. 9.

[498] _i.e._ the admission of more than one deity into a
single building. The word "trias" is sometimes used of
the three old Roman deities, Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus
(_e.g._ by Wissowa, _Myth. L