74 Rev. Mr Williams on the Force of the prefix Ve or Vce 



god who is not capable of aiding, but has the power of hurting, 

 Vejovis # ." Whether we admit the explanation of Gellius, or 

 incline to that proposed by Ovid, the meaning of ve remains the 

 same. But as the poet describes him as the youthful Jupiter, 

 with youthful look and unarmed hand f , 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 Horace's second satire, was vepallida. The older 



* " In antiquis spectionibus nomina haec Deorum inesse animadvertimus, Dijovis 

 et Vejovis. Est autem etiam aedes Vejovis Romas, inter arcem et Capitolinum ; 

 suorum nominum rationem hanc esse comperi. Jovem Latini veteres a juvando 

 appellavere, eunderaque, alio vocabulo juncto patre dixerunt. Nam quod est, elisis 

 aut immutatis quibusdam Uteris, 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, 1 "' — Nodes Atticce, lib. v. cap. 12. 



-f- " Jupiter est juvenis juveniles aspice vultus, 

 Adspice deinde manum fulmina nulla tenet. 1 ' 



