erts) certainly (he says) Ops was. He quotes a few words from
Macrobius (i. 13. 19) in which these two are mentioned as husband and
wife. If he had quoted the whole passage, his reader would have been
better able to judge of the value of the writers of whom Macrobius says
that they "crediderunt" that Ops was wife of Saturn. For it appears that
some of them fancied that Saturnus was "a satu dictus _cuius causa de
caelo est_"--(a desperate attempt to make the old spirit of the seed
into a heaven-god), while Ops, whose name speaks for itself, was the
earth. But the real companion deity to Ops was not Saturnus, but Consus.
This has been placed beyond all reasonable doubt by Wissowa in his _de
Feriis_ (reprinted in _Gesammelte Abhandlungen_, p. 154 foll.). See also
my _R.F._ p. 212. The names Ops and Consus obviously refer to stored
corn, and everything in their cult points the same way. Saturnus'
connection with Ops is a late and a mistaken one, derived from the
Graecising tendency, which brought Cronos and Rhea to bear on them.

Next a word about Hora Quirini. As this coupling of names is followed by
Virites Quirini, in the characteristic method explained in the text (cp.
Cic. _Nat. Deor._ ii. 27 of Vesta, "_vis_ eius ad aras et focos
pertinet"), it is hardly necessary to comment on it. Hora is perhaps
connected with Umbrian Heris (cp. Buecheler, _Umbrica_, index), which
with kindred forms means will, willingness. Thus in "Nerienem Mavortis
et Herem" (Ennius, fragm. 70, in Baehrens, _Fragm. Poet. Lat._) we may
see the strength and the will of Mars (cp. Herie Iunonis). Hora is also
connected in legend with Hersilia (Ov. _Met._ 14. 829), and this helps
to show how the Alexandrian erotic legend-making faculty got hold of
her. But, says Dr. Frazer, Ennius regarded her as wife of Quirinus:
"Teque Quirine pater veneror, Horamque Quirini" (fragm. 71 of the
_Annales_). This is Dr. Frazer's interpretation of the words, but Ennius
says nothing of conjugal relations; and even if he had, his evidence as
to ancient Roman conceptions would be worthless. Ennius was not a Roman;
he came from Magna Graecia; and if Dr. Frazer will read _all_ that is
said about him, _e.g._ in Schanz's history of Roman literature, he will
allow that every statement of such a man about old Roman ideas of the
divine must be regarded with suspicion and subjected to careful
criticism.

Next we come to Salacia Neptuni. Of this couple Dr. Frazer says that
Varro pl