Somewhere in England there is a
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
which is based the myth of the "confusion of tongues" in the
eleventh chapter of Genesis. The name "Babel" is really
Bab-Il, or "the gate of God"; but the Hebrew writer
erroneously derives the word from the root balal, "to
confuse"; and hence arises the mythical explanation,--that
Babel was a place where human speech became confused. See
Rawlinson, in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. I. p. 149;
Renan, Histoire des Langues Semitiques, Vol. I. p. 32;
Donaldson, New Cratylus, p. 74, note; Colenso on the
Pentateuch, Vol. IV. p. 268.
[70] Vilg. AEn. VIII. 322. With Latium compare plat?s, Skr.
prath (to spread out), Eng. flat. Ferrar, Comparative Grammar
of Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, Vol.
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