Note 522 — MENSIS IUNIUS.
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There is really nothing in common between the two: see Wissowa in Lex. s. v. Carna, following Merkel, clxv. What the real etymology of Carna may be is undecided; Curtius and others have connected it with cor, and on this O. Gilbert has built much foolish conjecture (ii. 19 foll.). I would rather compare it with the words Garanus or Recaranus of the Hercules legend (Bréal, Herc. et Cacus, pp. 59, 60), and perhaps with Gradivus, Grabovius. The name of the ‘nymph’ Cranae in Ovid’s account is in some MSS. Grane or Crane. H. Peter (Fasti, pt. ii. p. 89) adopts the connexion with caro: she is ‘die das Fleisch kräftigende Göttin’ (cp. Ossipago).