Volume I Part 31 (1/2)

[778] iv. 7.

[779]

Differ opus, tunc tristis hiems, tunc pleiades instant Tunc et in aequorea mergitur haedus aqua.

Saepe ego nimbosis dubius jactabar ab haedis.

Nascitur Oleneae signum pluviale capellae.

--_Ovid._

Quantus ab occasu veniens pluvialibus haedis Verberat imber humum.

--_Virgil._

[780] Paviravi tanyatur ekapad a?o divo dharta; _?igv._ x. 65, 13.--Cfr.

the a?a ekapad invoked after Ahirbudhnya and before Tritas, in the _?igv._ ii. 31, 6, and the a?aikapad, a name given to Vish?us, in the _Hariv_; the reader remembers also the _goat-footed races_ of Herodotus.

[781] We also find the lame goat, or he-goat, in the legend of Thor.

The G.o.d kills his he-goats, takes off their skins, and keeps their bones, to be able to resuscitate them at pleasure. His son, Thialfi, steals the thigh-bone of one of the goats, in order to go and sell it; then one of the he-goats of Thor, being resuscitated, is lame.--Cfr.

for the a.n.a.logous traditions the notices given by Simrock, work quoted before, p. 260.

[782] In a Russian song we read: ”Moon! moon! golden horns!”

[783] ii. 240.

[784] Cfr. Du Cange, _s. v._ galaxia.

[785] _Das festliche Jahr_, zweite Ausg., p. 216.

[786] Florence, Piatti, 1821.

[787] Concerning this stone, cfr. a whole chapter in Aldrovandi, _De Quadrupedibus Bisulcis_, i.