Note 588 — MENSIS IUNIUS.

If he had written Genius Iovius, after the manner of the Iguvian inscription, with its adjectival forms which preserve a reminiscence of the older spirit-world, he might have been nearer the mark. It may be that we get back to Jupiter himself as the Genius par excellence, but there is no direct proof of this. The genius of a god is a late idea, as Mr. Jevons points out in a note to Roman Questions, p. liii.