Zeus the nominative is ("Zeús"). It is inflected as follows: vocative: (""); accusative: (); genitive: (); dative: (). Diogenes Laertius quotes Pherecydes of Syros as spelling the name, . "Zeus" is the Greek continuation of *"," the name of the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky, also called *' ("Sky Father"). The god is known under this name in the Rigveda (Vedic Sanskrit "Dyaus/Dyaus Pita"), Latin (compare "Jupiter", from "Iuppiter", deriving from the Proto-Indo-European vocative *'), deriving from the root *"dyeu"- ("to shine", and in its many derivatives, "sky, heaven, god"). Zeus is the only deity in the Olympic pantheon whose
Shepherds of the Romans Kéza and the 14th-century identified these "shepherds and husbandmen" as Vlachs. According to the chapter 9 of the "Gesta Hungarorum", Rus' princes informed the Magyars who marched by Kiev towards "Pannonia" that in that land "there lived the Slavs, Bulgarians, Vlachs, and the shepherds of the Romans" "(quam terram habitarent Sclavi, Bulgarii et Blachii ac pastores Romanorum)". The anonymus author of the "Gesta" added that "after the death of King Attila, the Romans said the land of Pannonia was pastureland because their flocks grazed in the land of Pannonia". Shepherds of the Romans The shepherds of the Romans () were