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sought to connect ftovXr] with (3o\rj—a notion well worth weighing (Boisacq op.
cit. pp. 114, 129). However that may be, the nav\6s in the hand of the god or
of the god's soul is presumably the magician's rod ; its precise botanical cha-
racter can hardly be determined.

The nearest analogue to the Cauloniate sprite occurs on a fragmentary votive
ftinax of terra cotta found at Rosarno in Calabria and now preserved in the
Antiquarium at Munich (A. Michaelis in the Ann. d. Inst. 1867 xxxix. 93—104
pi. D, A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1352 f., Christ—Lauth Fiihrer
durch d. k. Antiquarium in Miinchen 1891 p. 16 cited by O. Waser in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 498 f. Fig. 892 is a fresh drawing made from the cast
at Cambridge). This relief, which Furtwangler loc. cit. assigned to the period
c. 450—440 B.C., shows Hermes confronting Aphrodite. The type of the goddess
is obviously derived from a cult-statue—witness the rose in her hand and the

Fig. 892.

thymiaterion before her. But the chief interest of the design lies in the little
figure of Eros, who stands on the arm of the goddess and with outstretched hand
expresses her feelings towards the god (Plout. praec. coniug. 1 (cat yap oi naXaiol
Tjj 'A(f)po8iTr) tov 'EpfirjV uvyKaB'ibpvcrav, coy rr/s nep\ tov ydpov Tj8ovrjs paKicrra \6yov
8eopevrjs, Harpokr. S.v. ^idvpLO-TTjs '~Epprjs' Arjpocrdcvrjs ev rco Kara Neat'pay (39).
rjv rty ''Adrjvrjo-iv 'Epp^y ovtoo Kakovpevos' iriparo 8e 'Adr]vr/cn (cat tyidvpos 'AfppoSirr]
k.al"Epa>s tyldvpos = Souid. s.v. ^idvpiaTrjs 'Epprjs, id. s.v. ^idvpio-rov 'EppoO (cat
"EpaiTos (cat 'ArppoStY^y' anep Tvparos inoLrjcrev, coy (prjai Zocnrvpos {Frag. hist. Gr.
iv. 533 Miiller), 0r;cret>y, iiret <E>atSpa coy (paaiv i^idvpi^e Qr/o-el nara 'IttttoXvtov,
8ia(3ak\ovcra avTov. oi 8e av6pa>nivu>rep6v (paaiv '~Epprjv 'i'ldvpio-TTjv, Traparb dvdpoo-
irovs inei avvfpxoptvovs ra aTropprjra o-vvTidecrdai, (cat \J/idvpi£eiv dWr/XoLS Trepl cov
ftovXovrai = Bekker anecd. i. 317, 11 ff., Eustath. in Od.p. 1881, 1 ff. 816 (cut ^idvpov
'A<ppo8'iTT]s Kara Tlavaavlav (sc. the lexicographer Pausanias rather than a slip for
Harpokration) lepbv rjv 'Adrjvrjai Ka\"Epa>ros 8e- ov /cat Arjpoo-devrjs, (prjal, pepvrjTai
iv rco Kara Nealpas (39). e'(caXetro Se, (pao-i, Vidvpos 8ta to ray ev^opevas aiirrj rrpbs

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