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 264 The European Sky -God.

sub love, " under Jupiter," thus blending the animistic with the anthropomorphic conception of the sky. Ovid says of the early Arcadians :

^ Neath Jupiter they would endure, and bare of limb they went. To face the downpour of the sky or blustering South content}

So of the Romans at the festival of Anna Perenna :

Some must endure 'neath Jupiter, and some must pitch a booth. -

Demeter in search of Persephone —

Steadfast ^neath Jupiter endured for many a weary day.

And patient marked the ?noonlight fall or rain-stonn on its way.^

While of Clytie, who fell in love with the Sun, we read :

'Neath Jupiter by night and day she sat tipon the ground.*

The same author elsewhere tells how Juno was jealous of—

The ny?nphs who ^Jteath her Jupiter lay on the mountain-side.^

Horace too can write :

The hunter still 'tieath freezing Jupiter Must tarty heedless of his loving ivife.^

Such expressions, however illogical, had a certain poetic value. So had the rhetorical, though sometimes far- fetched, use of the word Iiipiter to denote " the sky " or " the weather." The author of the poem Aetna^ wrongly ascribed to Virgil, writes :

" quamvis caeruleo siccus love fulgeat aether."

Though the dry air should shine with sky-blue Jove.

^ Ov. fast. 2. 299 f. - Ov. fast. 3. 527. ' Ov. fast. 4. 505 f.


 * Ov. met. 4. 260. ^ Ov. tnet. 3. 363.

^ Hor. od. I. I. 25 f. Cp. Stat. Theb. 2. 403 ff. te iam tempus aperto | sub love ferre dies terrenaque frigora membris | ducere, Claud, cons. Prob. et Olyb. 36 f. gelido si quem Maeotica pascit | sub love, Avien. Aratea prognost. 405 ff. sed quum tranquillo tenduntur crassa serena | sub love, venturae praenoscere signa procellae | convenit.

"^ Aetna 331.