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ii. 386. The petasos as a sky-symbol possibly meets us again on the tomb of Porsenna
at Clusium as described by Varro ap. Plin. nat. hist. 36. 91—93 (92 pyramides stant
quinquc.ita fastigatae ut in summo orbis aeneus et petasus unus omnibus sit inpositus,
ex quo pendeant exapta catenis tintinabula, etc.). For discussion and attempted restorations
see Quatremere de Quincy and the Due de Luynes in the Ann. d. Inst. 1829 i. 304—309,
Mpn. d. Inst, i pi. 13, G. Dennis The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria? London 1883 ii.
345—358, J. Martha VArt Etrusque Paris 1889 p. 206 ff., Durm Baukunst d. Etrusk.2
p. 140ff. fig. 165.

ii. 388 n. 4. Janiform busts of Zeus and Hermes are implied by the word Atep/mt
(Prokl. in Plat. Alcib. i. 68 f. Creuzer /cat -rvepl eKaarov tlov dedv rrXijOos £<tti 8a.ifj.6vwi'
d/Mjdrfrov /cat rats aiirah eiruvvfi'iais airoaep.vvvbfJ.evov twv rjyov/j.e'vwv 6eu>v 'AnoWuves yap /cat
Ates /cat Aiepuai KaXovfievoi xalpovaiv, are 5i] /cat tt\v IhioTrfTa twv oiKeiwv OeCiv airoTVTrovjxevoi).

ii. 397 11. o. R. B. Onians in the Class. Rev. 1924 xxxviii. 5 takes Zeus 'HAa/care^s
to mean Zeus 'of the Spindle,' who spins the thread of fate (cp. Od. 4. 207 f. peta 5'
dpiyvwros yovos dvepos w re Kpovl<av | 6\j3ov eiriKkibari yafieovri re yeivo/xivw re).

ii. 465. For horned female deer see L. P. Hatch ' A Doe with Horns' in The American
Naturalist 1870 iii. 279, W. J. Hays 'Does with Horns' ib. 1870 iii. 548—550 and in
The Academy 1870 i. 103.

ii. 479 n. 8. J. Kohler ' Brauche und Mythen der Arandas ' [ = the Arunta] in the
Zeitschnft des Vereins fur Volkskunde 1916 xxvi. 283 ' hier bildet die Milchstrasse einen
grossen Fluss : sie ist mit hohen Baumen besetzt und von Wasserquellen umgeben, wo
Beerenfruchte in Hiille und Fulle wachsen.'

ii. 479 n. 10. See also D. A. Mackenzie in Folk-Lore 1922 xxxiii. 159.

ii. 482. For the Milky Way conceived as a tree cp. W. Gundel Sterne und Steru-
bilder im Glauben des Altertums und der Neuzeitlioxm—Leipzig 1922 p. 46 : ' Fiirsich steht
die Auffassung der Bakairi die einen gewaltigen Trommelbaum darin erblicken' (citing K.
von den Steinen Unter den Naturvblkern Zentral-Brasiliens Berlin 1894 pp. 360, 436).

ii. 483. Mr R. Campbell Thompson, in a letter passed on to me by Mr Sidney Smith,
says : ' The kiskanu is not a common plant, and is rarely, if ever, used in the medical
texts. Yet there are three kinds of it—salmu, pisu, and sa/uu—black, white, and red?
(or yellow). I doubt it being the astragalus now. I looked about always in Mespot for
anything which would coincide and I confess I am baffled. There is nothing at Eridu
now—which is as flat and bare, save for low scrub growth in parts, as one's hand. It can
hardly be a very special tree, since it is to be found at the mouth of the rivers.'

ii. 484. A. Nehring in the Mitteilungen der Schlesischen Gesellschafl fur Volkskunde
1916 xviii. 23 argues that the original form of the name was the vocative "A7reAAoi',
because only in the vocative is the e unaccented, and only unaccented e becomes 0 under
the influence of a following u (0). This argument was cited by A. H. Krappe in a letter
to J. Rendel Harris, who comments: 'He should have added that, with the second
syllable unstressed, it was easy to explain the Thessalian "A7rXoi^' (F. Bechtel Die
griechischeu Dialekte Berlin 1921 i. 172).

ii. 486. The ultimate acceptance of the bay as the tree par excellence of Apollon can
be well illustrated from a unique statir
of s. ivB.C, struck by some uncertain
town in Crete and now preserved in the
Hunterian collection at Glasgow (P.
Gardner Types of Gk. Coins p. 165
pi. 9, 15 and 16, J. N. Svoronos N~u-
misniatique de la Crete ancieime Macon
1890 i. 331 pi. 31, 8, Hunter Cat. Coins
ii. 200 pi. 43, 7, Head Hist, num.2
p. 479). Obv. Apollon, seated to right
on the trunk of a bay-tree, holding a
wreath in his left hand. Rev. Apollon,
seated to right on the trunk of a bay-

tiee, holding a lyre in his left hand. Fig. 1012 is drawn from a cast kindly supplied to me
by Mr G. Macdonald.

ii. 493. I am indebted to Mr B. F. C. Atkinson for the following important com-
munication (Feb. 25, 1922):—'Note on Apollo and the Apple. It seems to me that the
philological obstacles to this connection are not insurmountable. Professor E. H. Sturtevant
{Pronunciation of Greek and Latin, Chicago 1920 pp. 91 ff.) has shown that, while in Greek
the unvoiced stops were lenes, that is, pronounced without force, and the voiced stops
were fortes, the reverse was true in Latin. This is the reason why in certain cases of

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