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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: place called Chateau Vert; the peasantry have corrupted it
into Shotover, and say that it has borne that name ever since
Little John shot over a high hill in the neighbourhood.[69]
Latium means "the flat land"; but, according to Virgil, it is
the place where Saturn once hid (latuisset) from the wrath of
his usurping son Jupiter.[70]
[66] Meyer, in Bunsen's Philosophy of Universal History, Vol.
I. p. 151.
[67] Aimoin, De Gestis Francorum, II. 5.
[68] Taylor, Words and Places, p. 393.
[69] Very similar to this is the etymological confusion upon
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