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54 attract undue emphasis; and this state of things among them continued probably a considerable time after a more settled mode of life in a more genial climate had set the Greek mind at liberty freely to develop the many-sided character of the Hellenic god identified with the heavens, who, as the Zeus portrayed by a few masterly touches in the Odyssey, may safely be regarded as the grandest product of heathen theology.

An inscription from Morestel, near La Tour-du-Pin, in the department of the Isère, reads: Iovi Baginati, Corinthus Nigidi Aeliani ex vot(o). Unfortunately the epithet Baginates, which may or may not be topical, is of unknown origin; but compare the Zend bagha, 'god,' and the O. Bulgarian bogŭ, of the same meaning. We are no better off in the case of our next inscription, discovered on a small altar at Vienne: Deo Sucello, Gellia Iucund(a) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito). The dative is likewise written Sucello on a stone found at Yverdun in Switzerland. The name of the god occurs also on a silver ring found at York and inscribed with the words Deo Sucelo. These inscriptions identify the god with no Roman divinity; but that has at last been