misprinted Pubertas. Wissowa, _R.K._ 126, thinks of Hebe
in a Latin form; in his view it must be a Greek deity,
being brought in by the decemviri and the books. But we
shall find that these begin now to interfere with Roman
cults, and in such a crisis we need not wonder at it.
Wissowa allows that we do not know where this Hebe can
have come from, nor, I may add, why she should have
come. That there was some special meaning in the
combination Juventas, Hercules, Genius I feel sure, and
I conjecture that it may be found in the urgent need of
a supply of _iuvenes_. Hercules and Genius seem both to
represent the male principle of life (_R.F._ 142 foll.).
Juventas speaks for herself, but we may remember that
the _tirones_ sacrificed to her on the day of the
Liberalia (17th March), and that Liber is almost
certainly another form of Genius (_R.F._ 55).

[667] Livy xxii. 1.

[668] It is only from this passage that we know of the
oracle. See Bouche-Leclercq, _Hist. de divination_, iv.
146. That of Caere is mentioned in Livy xxi. 62. Both
cities were mainly Etruscan.

[669] Livy xxvii. 37 betrays some knowledge of the
infectious nature of prodigy-reporting: "Sub unius
prodigii, ut fit, mentionem, alia quoque nuntiata."

[670] Pliny, _N.H._ xxxv. 115, where the verses are
quoted as inscribed on the paintings in her temple at
Ardea. Note that Juno is here called the wife of Jupiter
by a Greek artist from Asia.

[671] For Juno as the woman's deity and guardian spirit,
see above, p. 135. To refer this prominence of the
goddess to her connection with Carthage and mythical
enmity to the Romans, as we see it in the _Aeneid_, is
premature; we must suppose that each Juno was still a
local deity, and no general conception in the later
Greek sense is as yet possible.

[672] For Feronia, see _R.F._ 252 foll.

[673] The _procurationes_ ordered were doubtless
recorded in the _annales maximi_. The books of the
decemviri, we must suppose, were burnt with the oracles
in 38 B.C. (Diels, _Sib. Blaetter_, p. 6 note).

[674] Wissowa, _R.K._ 170; Marq. 586 foll.

[675] Livy xxii. 9-10.

[676] See above, p. 204 foll.; Strabo, p. 250; Festus,
p. 106.

[677] If it be asked why Jupiter is here without his
titles Optimus Maximus, the answer is that just belo