Libertus and Libertinus were, there is no doubt, originally the same. […] If these observations be correct, Matutinus is the same as Matutus, and is not Janus, i. […] When, therefore, they found any foreign deities possessing the same attributes as some of their own, they at once inferred them to be the same under different names ; but where the legends would not accord, the deities themselves were regarded as being different, even when they were in reality perhaps the same. […] The same is the case with the poems named the Melampodia and Ægimios, likewise ascribed to this ancient bard. […] She is generally regarded as being the same with the Astarte of the Phœnicians.