MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES. 
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'Ovpav6<; (San. ^^ir-Varxiiia) IIoa-eLBcov (M'^riH- Pracetas), 
Neptunus (Sans. ;T*T^^n;,-Nabliasvan) and the like. The 
question may be solved thus. When the Aryans came to 
India, a country in which the climate was hotter than that 
of their original home, they began to appreciate the effects 
of rain and the rainy season ; and Indra became more 
important than Dyauspitar, ZeviiraTT^p and Jupiter, whom 
he is said to have conquered and subjugated as in the 
passage fSl^i^^^ft ar^TSTT - ludrayadyau rasuroanamrata. 
" The mighty Dyaus bowed to Indra." 
I shall next speak of Eoma. This was the Latin 
name of the capital of the ancient Roman empire, and the 
Gbecian form of the word is Pa>/j,r]. The goddess of the city 
of Rome was called Roma and was worshipped in a temple. 
The city of Rome was by some said to have been built by 
Eomus, son of ^Eneas and Lavinia, but the foundation of 
it is generally attributed to Romulus, who was a son of 
Mars and Ilia, and grandson of Numitor, king of Alba. 
His twin brother was Remus. When Amulius, the brother 
of Numitor, usurped the throne, he caused the two children 
to be thrown into the Tiber ; but they were preserved by the 
river, which stopped its course, and a she-wolf came and 
suckled them. In course of time they were discovered by 
Faustulus, one of the king's shepherds, who brought them up 
as his own children. When they grew old, they knew their 
parentage, and, after killing Amulius, restored their grand- 
father to the throne. Romulus afterwards built the city of 
Rome and made it the capital of his kingdom. Some suppose 
that the story of a she-wolf having been the nurse of the 
two children of Ilia arose from the fact that the wife of 
Faustulus, who brought them up in their infancy, was called 
Lupa, a word which is the feminine form of Lupus, 'a wolf.' 
I am, however, inclined to think that the original word 
Romus itself may have meant a wolf, and that Remus may 
be a corruption of Romus, and Romulus, a diminutive form ; 
