Not to be confused, as in Livy, _Epit._ 14, with a statue of Summanus himself on the same temple (in fastigio Iovis: Cicero, _Div._ 1. 10).
Festus, 229, s. v. Proversum fulgor: ‘Quod diurna Iovis, nocturna Summani fulgura habentur.’ (Cp. Pliny, _N. H._ 2. 52.) An interesting inscription (_C. I. L._ vi. 206) runs, ‘Summanium fulgus conditum,’ i. e. ‘a bolt which fell before dawn was buried here.’
_Études de Mythologie Gauloise_, i. p. 92. M. Gaidoz looks on these wheel-cakes as ‘emblematic of Summanus’ as a god of sun and sky.
_Journal of Hellenic Studies_, vol. vii, No. 1 (1886), p. 44 foll.
Plut. _Marius_, 26; Pliny, l. c. I follow Aust, _de Aedibus sacris_, p. 26.
Ovid is the only authority for the worship of Fortuna on June 11 (_Fasti_, 6. 569); it is not mentioned in the calendars (Tusc. Ven. Maff.) which have notes surviving for this day.
By H. Jordan, _Symbolae ad historiam religionum Italicarum alterae_ (Königsberg, 1885). See also R. Peter, in _Lex._ s. v. Fortuna, 1542, and Aust, _Lex._ s. v. Iuppiter, 647.
Fernique, _Étude sur Préneste_, pp. 8 and 139 foll.
He held ‘birth’ and ‘fortune’ to be words etymologically related. Cp. a communication from Prof. Kluge in the same number of the _Academy_.
_Journal of Philology_, vol. xi. 178; _Studies in Latin Literature_, p. 60.
_de Civ. Dei_, 4. 11. Cp. Serv. _Aen._ 8. 336.
l. c. ‘Castissime colitur a matribus.’ One of the ancient inscriptions from Praeneste (_C. I. L._ xi. 2863) is a dedication ‘nationu cratia’ = _nationis gratia_, which may surely mean ‘in gratitude for childbirth,’ though Mommsen would refer it to cattle, on the ground of a gloss of Festus (p. 167).
O. Gilbert, _Gesch. u. Topogr. der Stadt Rom_, ii. 260 foll.
St. John, iii. 30; St. Augustine, Sermo xii in Nativitate Domini: ‘In nativitate Christi dies crescit, in Johannis nativitate decrescit. Profectum plane facit dies, quum mundi Salvator oritur; defectum patitur quum ultimus prophetarum nascitur.’
See many examples in _The Golden Bough_, ii. 258 foll., and Brand’s _Popular Antiquities_, p. 306.
See R. Peter, in _Lex._, s. v. Fortuna, 1506.
_Études de Myth. Gaul._ i. 56 foll. On p. 58 we find, ‘La Fortune nous paraît donc sortir, par l’intermédiaire d’une image, d’une divinité du soleil.’