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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FAUNA , the name, in

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ROMAN

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MYTHOLOGY

mythology, of a

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country goddess of the

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FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, known sometimes as the

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SISTER

sister, some-times as the wife of the

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GOD

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FAUNUS (i.e. the "kindly," from Lat. favere, or the " speaker," from fari)

Faunus; hence the

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TERM

term is used collectively for all the animals in any given

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GEOGRAPHICAL

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AREA

area or

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GEOLOGICAL

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period, or for an enumeration of the same . It thus corresponds to the term "

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FLORA

flora " in respect to plant

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LIFE

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