Note 1032 — Chapter XVIII · THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM (continued 2)
Reading edition
Festus, p. 266, ed. C. O. Müller; Ettore Pais, Ancient Legends of Roman History (London, 1906), pp. 55 sqq. Festus indeed treats the derivation as an absurdity, and many people will be inclined to agree with him.