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in the reed. K. F. Johansson Vberdie alti?idische Gtittin Dhisdna und Verwandtes
Uppsala 1917 p. 33 quotes Dion Cass. 72. 12 on"Aortyyoi, av 'Pads re Km 'PuVror
r/yovvTo, ^)\dov fiev is rrju AaKtav k.t.X. and explains that 'Paos- and 'Pdwros, 'Rush'
and ' Rafter,' imply the phallic god of fertility conceived as a Reed (cp. Finnish
Sdmfisd, 'scirpus') and a horizontal Roof-beam. But his etymologies and his
symbolism seem equally precarious. He would do better to cite the myth of Pan
and Syrinx (H. Ostern in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1642 ff.) as illustrated on
imperial bronze coins of Thelpousa in Arkadia (K. Wernicke ib. iii. 1356, 1467
fig. 25 after Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 204 no. 3 Septimius Severus
pi. 37, 23, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paus. ii. 102 Geta,
Vienna pi. T, 24, Head Hist, num.2 p. 456: see further F. Imhoof-Blumer in the
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1874 i. 134).
With the extension of the kalalhishos-tyipe to runners in the Lampadedromia
as represented on a series of vases e. 400 B.C. (Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant.
iii. 910 f. figs. 4328—4330) we are not here concerned. One such vase, that signed
by the potter Nikias (Hoppin Red-fig. Vases ii. 218 f. no. 1 fig., J. D. Beazley
Attische Vascnmaler des rotfigurigen Stils Tubingen 1925 p. 466 no. 1), is repro-
duced on the five-drachma postage-stamp designed by J. N. Svoronos for the
Greek government and issued at Athens in 1906 to commemorate the 1 Olympic
Games.'
(13) Floating islands are reported from various districts of Italy. Thus one
or more of them existed in agro Caecubo (Plin. nat. hist. 2. 209). The allusion is
probably to the Lacus Fundanus {Lago di Fo>idi) in the marshy plain between
Fundi and the sea (C. Hiilsen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 1244).
(14) In the country of the Sabines a lake known as Aquae Cutiliae, between
Reate (Rieti) and Interocrium (Antrodoco), was reckoned 'the navel of Italy'
(Varr. afi. Plin. nat. hist. 3. 109, Solin. 2. 23). It could boast a floating island
(Varr. afi. Plin. loc. cit. and in de ling. Lat. 5. 71) covered with trees and grasses
and so easily moved by the wind that it was never to be seen in the same place
for a day and night together (Plin. nat. hist. 2. 209, Sen. nat. quaestt. 3. 25. 8 f.,
cp. anon, de aquis mirabiiibus (sufira p. 975) 37). If the Greeks dubbed it KorvXrj
(oracle of Zeus at Dodona afi. Dion. Hal. ant. Rom. 1. 19, Macrob. Sat. 1. 7. 28,
Steph. Byz. s.v. 'Aj3opiyii>es ( = Cougny Anth. Pal. Afifie?id. 6. 177), Paul, ex Fest.
p. 51, 8 Mtiller, p. 44, 22 f. Lindsay), that was a well-meant etymology of the
Aquae Cutiliae ("Yfiara KairtXia). Of greater interest is the account given by Dion
Hal. ant. Rom. 1. 15 (after Varro): 'At a distance of seventy furlongs from Reate
is Kotylia, a famous town, situated at the base of a mountain. Not far from it is
a lake, four hundred feet across, full of spring water which is always flowing and
—so they say—has no bottom to it. This lake, having a touch of divinity about
it, the natives deem sacred to Victory (sc. Vacuna). They enclose it round about
with fillets, that nobody should approach the water, and preserve it as a spot
unprofaned by human tread except on certain yearly occasions (for Kcupols net
btfrrjo-lois cod. Vat. has Kmpols tutiv tYfjcriotr), when they offer customary sacrifices
and particular persons charged with the office land on the small island in it. The
island is some fifty feet in diameter and rises not more than one foot above the
level of the water. It has no fixed position and floats round here there and every-
where, the wind turning it now hither now thither. A plant resembling sedge
grows upon it and sundry bushes of no great size—a thing' inexplicable to those
who have not seen the handywork of nature and a marvel second to none.' On
which E. H. Bunbury in Smith Diet. Ceogr. i. 721 comments: 'It is evident that
this marvel arose from the incrustations of carbonate of lime formed by the
in the reed. K. F. Johansson Vberdie alti?idische Gtittin Dhisdna und Verwandtes
Uppsala 1917 p. 33 quotes Dion Cass. 72. 12 on"Aortyyoi, av 'Pads re Km 'PuVror
r/yovvTo, ^)\dov fiev is rrju AaKtav k.t.X. and explains that 'Paos- and 'Pdwros, 'Rush'
and ' Rafter,' imply the phallic god of fertility conceived as a Reed (cp. Finnish
Sdmfisd, 'scirpus') and a horizontal Roof-beam. But his etymologies and his
symbolism seem equally precarious. He would do better to cite the myth of Pan
and Syrinx (H. Ostern in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1642 ff.) as illustrated on
imperial bronze coins of Thelpousa in Arkadia (K. Wernicke ib. iii. 1356, 1467
fig. 25 after Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 204 no. 3 Septimius Severus
pi. 37, 23, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paus. ii. 102 Geta,
Vienna pi. T, 24, Head Hist, num.2 p. 456: see further F. Imhoof-Blumer in the
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1874 i. 134).
With the extension of the kalalhishos-tyipe to runners in the Lampadedromia
as represented on a series of vases e. 400 B.C. (Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant.
iii. 910 f. figs. 4328—4330) we are not here concerned. One such vase, that signed
by the potter Nikias (Hoppin Red-fig. Vases ii. 218 f. no. 1 fig., J. D. Beazley
Attische Vascnmaler des rotfigurigen Stils Tubingen 1925 p. 466 no. 1), is repro-
duced on the five-drachma postage-stamp designed by J. N. Svoronos for the
Greek government and issued at Athens in 1906 to commemorate the 1 Olympic
Games.'
(13) Floating islands are reported from various districts of Italy. Thus one
or more of them existed in agro Caecubo (Plin. nat. hist. 2. 209). The allusion is
probably to the Lacus Fundanus {Lago di Fo>idi) in the marshy plain between
Fundi and the sea (C. Hiilsen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 1244).
(14) In the country of the Sabines a lake known as Aquae Cutiliae, between
Reate (Rieti) and Interocrium (Antrodoco), was reckoned 'the navel of Italy'
(Varr. afi. Plin. nat. hist. 3. 109, Solin. 2. 23). It could boast a floating island
(Varr. afi. Plin. loc. cit. and in de ling. Lat. 5. 71) covered with trees and grasses
and so easily moved by the wind that it was never to be seen in the same place
for a day and night together (Plin. nat. hist. 2. 209, Sen. nat. quaestt. 3. 25. 8 f.,
cp. anon, de aquis mirabiiibus (sufira p. 975) 37). If the Greeks dubbed it KorvXrj
(oracle of Zeus at Dodona afi. Dion. Hal. ant. Rom. 1. 19, Macrob. Sat. 1. 7. 28,
Steph. Byz. s.v. 'Aj3opiyii>es ( = Cougny Anth. Pal. Afifie?id. 6. 177), Paul, ex Fest.
p. 51, 8 Mtiller, p. 44, 22 f. Lindsay), that was a well-meant etymology of the
Aquae Cutiliae ("Yfiara KairtXia). Of greater interest is the account given by Dion
Hal. ant. Rom. 1. 15 (after Varro): 'At a distance of seventy furlongs from Reate
is Kotylia, a famous town, situated at the base of a mountain. Not far from it is
a lake, four hundred feet across, full of spring water which is always flowing and
—so they say—has no bottom to it. This lake, having a touch of divinity about
it, the natives deem sacred to Victory (sc. Vacuna). They enclose it round about
with fillets, that nobody should approach the water, and preserve it as a spot
unprofaned by human tread except on certain yearly occasions (for Kcupols net
btfrrjo-lois cod. Vat. has Kmpols tutiv tYfjcriotr), when they offer customary sacrifices
and particular persons charged with the office land on the small island in it. The
island is some fifty feet in diameter and rises not more than one foot above the
level of the water. It has no fixed position and floats round here there and every-
where, the wind turning it now hither now thither. A plant resembling sedge
grows upon it and sundry bushes of no great size—a thing' inexplicable to those
who have not seen the handywork of nature and a marvel second to none.' On
which E. H. Bunbury in Smith Diet. Ceogr. i. 721 comments: 'It is evident that
this marvel arose from the incrustations of carbonate of lime formed by the