Note 487 — MENSIS MAIUS.
Reading edition
The Hephaestus-myth has been treated on the comparative method by F. von Schröder (Griech. Götter u. Heroen, i. 79 foll.), and by Rapp in Myth. Lex. It is of course possible that it may have been known to the early Italians, but what we know of Volcanus does not favour this.