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 160 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY 1. Agni I praise the household priest the heavenly lord of sacrifice, | The Hotar most generous in blessings. 2. Agni as by ancient seers so by recent ones is to be praised, | He shall bring hither the gods. 4. What holy sacrifice thou, O Agni, art encompassing, | That goes among the gods. 9. As a father to a son, so, O Agni, be accessible to us, | Accompany us into well-being. Ovid, Met. xv. 864, Fast. iii. 45, vi. 713 sq. ; Vergil, Geor. i. 498, iv. 384, Aen. ii. 296, 567 ; Macaulay, Battle of Lake Regillus 35. Bona Dea : Ovid, Ars Amat. iii. 244. Silvanus: Ovid, Met. xiv. 639; Vergil, Eel. x. 24; Spenser, F. Q. i. vi. 14. Vertumnus : Ovid, Met. xiv. 642 sq. ; Pope, Vertumnus and Pomona ; Keats, Endymion ii. 444 : Taste these juicy pears Sent me by sad Vertumnus, when his fears Were high about Pomona. Pomona : Ovid, Met. xiv. 623 sq. ; Pope. Windsor Forest, 37: See Pan with flocks, with fruits Pomona crowned ; Vertumnus and Pomona ; Macaulay, Prophecy of Capys 18. Flora : Ovid, Fast. v. 195 : - Chloris eram, quae Flora vocor. Spenser, F. Q. i. iv. 17. Pales: Ovid, Fast. iv. 722 sq. ; Macaulay, Prophecy of Capys 18. Mars Gradivus : Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 566, Fast. ii. 861, iii. 169 ; Vergil, Aen. x. 542. III. DIVINITIES OF THE HEAVENS 207. Mightier than all the divinities of the earth, who have just been discussed, appear to have been the repre- sentatives of those forces that operate in the heavens and in the air. In Italy these forces were embodied in the divine pair, Juppiter and Juno. The former was, perhaps, considered the god whose power was exercised in the sky, preferably by day ; the latter, a moon goddess, who ruled by night.