. — It appears to us to be quite erroneous to suppose that the Ceres, Liber and Libera of the Romans were the Demeter, Dionysos and Kora of the Greeks, by whom Dionysos does not seem to have been united with the two goddesses, as Liber was at Rome. […] The temple usually called that of Ceres at Rome was in reality one of the three conjoined deities (Liv. iii. 55. […] The Latin language abounds above all others in adjectival terminations (see Hist. of Rome, p. 4), many of which are perfectly equivalent. […] Early State of Italy and Rome, 501. […] The poet pleases his imagination amidst the luxury of Rome in describing the furniture of their simple abode, and the homely fare, though their best, which they set before their celestial guests, whose quality was at length revealed by the miracle of the wine-bowl being spontaneously replenished as fast as it was drained.