Connected

with Aigos “ goat,” representing (like the ram) the butting or piercing power of Jove—the sun god (see Palladium). Agné. The same as Agni (see Ag), Agnes “the lamb.” St Agnes is canonised by the Roman Catholic Church. She is said to have been martyred at the age of thirteen in 306 a.c. Her days are the 21st January, and (as Pudent i an a “the modest”) the 19th of May. She was a prodigy of youthful learning and piety. There is no evidence of her real existence, but Agnes signified both “lamb” and “innocent” (d-gna). Her féte nearly coincides with the Agonal i a (see Agonia). Agno, who nursed Jove, gave her name to sacred springs like that on Mount Lukios, which rose in soft vapour when stirred by the high priest of the god. Agonis was a common name for Vestals vowed to chastity, The Agnus-cast us plant was also sacred to the Virgin Diana, protecting her from the bite of the serpent of pa ion, No doubt Christians borrowed the old pagan ideas of Rome, as Rome borrowed from older cults.