Note 173 — MENSIS MARTIUS.
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H. Jordan expressed a somewhat different view in his Symbolae ad hist. Ital. religionum alterae, p. 9. He thinks that ‘volgari opinione hominum feminini numinis cum masculo coniunctionem non potuisse non pro coniugali aestimari.’ But this would seem to imply that the opinio volgaris was a mistaken one: and if so, how should it have arisen but under Greek influence?