ex._ _s.v._ Quirinus), but
this is in a different sense. On the idea of a trias
generally, see Kuhfeldt, _de Capitoliis imperii Romani_,
p. 82 foll.; Cumont, _Religions orientales dans le
paganisme romain_, p. 290, note 51.

[499] The technical name of the temple was aedes Iovis
Opt. Max.: for other indications of Jupiter's supremacy
see Aust, p. 720.

[500] On Oriental developments of Jupiter Opt. Max. see
an interesting paper by Cumont in _Archiv_ for 1906, p.
323 foll. (_Iuppiter summus exsuperantissimus_). A
relief in the Berlin Museum has a dedication _I.O.M.
summo exsuperantissimo_; but Prof. Cumont believes the
deity to have been really Oriental, introduced by Greek
philosophical theologians in the last century B.C., but
probably Chaldaean in origin.

[501] Jordan, _op. cit._ p. 7 and note. It is uncertain
whether the whole hill had any earlier name. The Mons
Saturnius of Varro, _L.L._ v. 42, with the legend of an
oppidum _Saturnia_, and the Mons Tarpeius (_Rhet. ad
Herenn._, iv. 32. 43; Pais, _Ancient Legends_, chs. v.
and vi.) need not be taken into account.

[502] Pais, _Ancient Legends of Roman History_, ch. v.

[503] See above, p. 130.

[504] This is an inference from the fact that this
Flamen is nowhere mentioned as connected with the
Capitoline cult. Macrob. i. 15, 16, speaks of the ovis
Idulis as sacrificed on every ides _a flamine_, and
this, it is true, took place on the Capitolium (Aust, in
_Lex._ _s.v._ Jupiter, 655), but (1) Festus, 290,
mentions sacerdotes, Ovid, _Fasti_ i. 588, castus
sacerdos only; and (2) this sacrifice may well, as O.
Gilbert conjectured, have originally taken place in the
Regia (_Gesch. und Topogr. Roms_, i. 236). In any case
the Flamen was not in any special sense priest of Iup.
Opt. Max.

[505] The _locus classicus_ for this is Pliny, _N.H._
xxxv. 157. The artist was said to have been one Volcas
of Veii. Ovid, _Fasti_ i. 201, says that the god had in
his hand a _fictile fulmen_. Varro believed this to be
the oldest statue of a god in Rome; see above, p. 146,
and Wissowa, _Gesammelte Abhandlungen_, p. 280, accepts
his statement as probably correct.

[506] Cic. _Catil._ iii. 9. 21.

[507] Jordan, _Topogr._ i. 2. pp. 39 and 62, notes. The
most convincing passages quoted by him are Suet