(^662) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY
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NOTES
Because of the demands of the Latin hexameter, the gods are not named in order of
importance. Ennius' forms are given, but we refer to Mercury and Jupiter (for Mer-
curius and Iovis).
Augustus continued to live on the Palatine Hill after he became Pontifex Maximus
in 12 B.c.
Her name seems to be connected with the Latin words for mind (mens) and remem-
bering (meminisse).
Some years after the great fire of A.D. 64 the emperor Domitian set up altars to Vul-
can in every one of the fourteen districts of Rome.
Ovid tells the same story of Priapus and Vesta at Fasti 6. 319-346. The story of Lotis
is the subject of Bellini's painting The Feast of the Gods (see Color Plate 6).
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on the Palatine.
These ships reached Italy and were turned into sea-nymphs by Cybele, who, as the
Phrygian goddess, protected ships made from Phrygian trees (Aeneid 10. 220-231).