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nomination and consecration of Germanus to the episcopal throne of Auxerre in the room
of himself. ' For,' said the saint, ' God has revealed to me that my life draweth to a close.'
A few days later Amator died, while Germanus became bishop in his stead and ruled the
see well (S. Baring-Gould The Lives of the Saints'1 Edinburgh 1914 v. 13 f.). Amator's
festival falls on May 1).

There are points about this curious narrative which suggest that we have here in an
attenuated, Christianised, form a Gallic parallel to the cult of Diana Nemorensis.

ii. 157 n. o. F. Courby Les vases grecs d reliefs Paris 1922 pp. 509—513 ('Oenochoes
a portraits de reines') enumerates four examples and sundry fragments, which com-
memorate Arsinoe ii, Berenike ii, and Ptolemy iv Philopator. With unimportant variations,
all repeat the same type, derived—according to Courby—from a statue of Arsinoe ii with
the attributes of Tyche set up by Ptolemy ii Philadelphos (Athen. 497 b—c) in her temple
at Alexandreia (Plin. nat. hist. 37. 108) together with an obelisk eighty cubits high
{id. ib. 36. 67 f.).

ii. 174. In the Rev. Arch. 1920 i. 172 C. Picard attempts to discredit the omphalos
found by F. Courby within the temple of Apollon. He suggests that it is perhaps a mere
weight and that its inscription may not after all be archaic. But Mr C. T. Seltman, who
at my request has made a careful examination of the original stone, sends me (Jan. 11,1923)
the following report: 'After our trip to Delphi, from which we returned four days ago,
I must write and tell you what I think about the Omphalos, which is now placed in the
Museum there. It seems to me that the suggestion of its being a forgery can only be born
of madness or malice ! The thing is smaller than one expected it to be, but it is to my

thinking impossible that it should be a fake. The [T] upon it is clear as are A A ; but

the sigma of AAZ is so mutilated by a large fracture in the stone that it might be almost
any letter.'

ii. 176 n. 1. On Themis at Delphoi see also F. Courby in the Foitilles de Delphes ii.
1. 81, who notes the inscription restored by G. Colin in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1903
xxvii. 107 no. 684 b, I4f. icpLopKovvn Se [Ge/us] /ecu ' AttoWlov IU8los /ecu Acltlo Kai"Aprep,[Ls
/cat] 'Ecrta /eat irvp dddvarov /cat deoi 7rd[eres /ecu wdaai ko.k'l<jtwl oXedpwi ttjv] | trurrjpiav
p,oi [d(pe"\u)<ri'}v, /c. t.A.

In the hymn composed by Aristonoos of Corinth and inscribed on the Athenian
Treasury at Delphoi we read how Apollon first occupied the oracular seat 7retuas Taiai>
avdoTpbipov \ Qep.Lv r evir\6nap.ov dedv (G. Colin in the Fouilles de Delphes iii. 2. 213 ff.
no. 191, i8f.).

ii. 176 n. 2. W. H. Roscher 'Die Bedeutung des E zu Delphi und die tibrigen
ypdp.pi.aTa Ae\c/>t/cd' in Philologies 1900 lix. 21—41 labours to prove that the mystic eZ is
for wpoaeL, efoei, ' " komm her" oder " Willkommen."' This, to my mind, is quite
impossible Greek.

ii. 190 n. o. Further references for the history of rliytd are given by F. W. von
Bissing in the Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Arch. Inst. 1923/24 xxxviii/ix Arch. Anz. pp. 106—109.

ii. 193. On the evolution of the tripod see now K. Schwendemann ' Der Dreifuss ' in
the Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Arch. Inst, 1921 xxxvi. 98—185 with figs. 1—30. Id. ib. p. 183 f.
discusses the relation of the tripod to Zeus on vases and coins.

ii. 193 n. 2. Cp. the twelfth-century fonts at Winchester etc. (C. H. Eden Black
Tournai Fonts in EnglandLondon 1909 pp. 1—32 with good plates), which in appearance
at least perpetuate this ancient form of libation-table.

ii. 195 n. 1. A. Furtwangler 'Zum plataischen Weihgeschenk in Delphi' in the
Sitzungsber. d. kais. bayr. Akad. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1904 pp. 413—417 (Am.
Journ. Arch. 1905 ix. 477) figures the upper surface of the highest extant step of the
Plataean tripod, and explains three symmetrically arranged slots in it as due to tenons
which passed through the top step of the base and thus tethered the tripod-feet to the
second step. If so, we must suppose that the legs of the tripod were drawn somewhat
closer together than I have placed them (supra p. 194 fig. 134). Furtwangler's inference,
however, is not quite secure, since the serpent-coil, which he too takes to have been the
central support of the caldron, has left no trace whatever on the second step. It may be
that the three slots in question served merely for dowels fastening this step to the one
above it, in which serpent-coil and legs were alike embedded.

Re the Plataean tripod see now R. M. Dawkins in Folk-Lore 1924 xxxv. 234 f., 380.

ii. 208 f. In this connexion Miss H. Richardson of Newnham College drew my
attention (Oct. 24, 1924) to Plout. de sera num. vind. 22 566 d d'/xa 5' iweLpaTo Trpocrdywv
(TTLSeLKvveiv cu'tcj to (pus e/c toO TpLTrooos, cus £\eye, did rQ>v koXttlov rrjs Qipidos direptLdb-