Secondly, by proving the identity between gods of different nations whose names, apparently different, have been resolved into the same root-word, or to a root of the same meaning. […] The left arm, which seems to have held the bow, is outstretched, and the head is turned in the same direction. […] In the same way Janus was believed to begin every new day, and was called Matutinus Pater*. […] Theseus conquered Sinis and inflicted the same fate upon him. […] He is the same as the Greek Minos, and the name is derived from the same root with the words, mind and man; man being so called as the measurer, or thinker.