74 Rev. Mr Wittiams on the Force of the prefix Ve or Ve 
god who is not capable of aiding, but has the power of hurting, 
Vejovis *.”. Whether we admit the explanation of GrLxius, or 
incline to that proposed by Ovin, the meaning of ve remains the 
same. But as the poet describes him as the youthful Jupiter, 
with youthful look and unarmed hand}, the latter seems the 
most probable. It is also in unison with the spirit of ancient 
mythology, to worship the same god under different names with 
different attributes, and with different ceremonies. Here we see 
Jupiter worshipped as a child, commonly as magnus or altus. 
But not even to Jupiter Latialis himself, the patron of the La- 
tin confederacy, and genius of the Mons Albanus, would the 
Roman condescend to pay his deepest homage. That was re- 
served for the tutelar god of the Capitol, the patron of the Eter- 
nal City —Jupiter Capitolinus, Jupiter Optimus Maximus. This 
feeling may be illustrated by the zeal with which, in Catholic 
countries, the respective merits and powers of our Lady of the 
Pillar—of our Lady of the Rock—or of our Lady of Loretto 
—are impugned or defended by their several votaries, who yet 
allow them all to be one and the same person. 
Vepallida, parum pallida, by no means pale, blushing, red- 
faced, or rather flushed. The original reading in the passage at 
the close of Horacr’s second satire, was vepallida. The older 
* « Tn antiquis spectionibus nomina hae Deorum inesse animadvertimus, Dijovis 
et Vejovis. Est autem etiam ades Vejovis Rome, inter arcem et Capitolinum ; 
suorum nominum rationem hane esse comperi. Jovem Latini veteres a juvando 
appellavere, eundemque, alio vocabulo juncto patre dixerunt. Nam quod est, elisis 
aut immutatis quibusdam literis, Jupiter, id plenum atque integrum est Jovispater, 
sic et Neptunuspater, et Saturnuspater, et Marspater (hoc enim est Marspiter); item- 
que Jovis Diespiter dictus est, et Lucetius. Quum Jovem igitur et Dijovem a ju- 
vando"nominassent, eum quoque Deum contra, qui non juvandi potestatem, sed vim 
nocendi haberet, Vejovem appellaverunt,”—Noctes Attica, lib. vy. cap. 12. 
+ “ Jupiter est juvenis juveniles aspice vultus, 
Adspice deinde manum fulmina nulla tenet.” 
