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i. 401 n. 7. Cp. Prob. in Verg. eel. 1 prooem. (iii. 2. 3-29, 1 Hagen) hircus Libyca
lingua tityrus appellator.

i. 404 purple-fleeced sheep. A. D. Nock in The Year's Work in Class. Sltid. 1925—
1Q26 p. 16 n. 3 cites G. Rohde's remarks in F. Jacoby Klassisch-Philologische Studien
Berlin 1925 v. 60 f.

i. 404 golden-fleeced sheep. E. L. Mijatovich Serbian Fairy Tales London 1917
pp. 141—149 ('The golden-haired Twins') tells how the Twins became successively two
trees with golden leaves and golden blossoms, two boards of a bed made from these trees,
two sparks from the fire that burnt the bed, 'two beautiful lambs with golden fleeces
and golden horns,' two golden-haired boys. See also S. Thompson Motif-index of Folk-
literature (FF Communications No. 106) Helsinki 1932 i. 296 B 105. 1 'Rani with
golden fleece.'

i. 405 ff. the golden lamb of Atreus. C. A. J. Hoffmann 'Ueber den goldenen
Widderdes Atreus' in the Zeitschriftfiir die Alterthtimswissenschaft 1838 v. 1122—1137,
O. Immisch 'Das goldne lamm des Atreus' in the Jahrb. f. class. Philol. Suppl. 1890
xvii. 202—208, A. H. Krappe 'Atreus' Lamm' in the Rhein. Mus. 1928 Ixxvii. 182—184
(citing remarkable Iranian parallels for a great ram as 'ein Symbol der Konigswiirde,
ein Regalium ' [sic/] from the ' Geschichte des Artachsir i Papakan,' founder of the
Sassanid dynasty (T. Noldeke in the Beitrage zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen
1S79 iv. 44 f., also in Firdusi Le Livre des Rois trad. J. Mohl Paris 1877 v. 230 ff.)).

Ach. Tat. isagog. 20 in schol. Arat. ed. Maass p. 48, I4f. 'Arpeis yap edpe tCiv
Tr\avi]Ttjiv ttjp tvavrlav cpopav, ujairep Kal i)\lov d-jrb avaroKGiv kvKlo^vov Kai (pepo^vov els
duo-^&s.

i. 406 the golden lamb identified with the sceptre. Cp. Sen. Thyest. 228 f. tergore ex
huius novi | aurata reges sceptra Tantalei gerunt.

i. 414 ft". the golden ram of Phrixos. G. Goerres Studien zur griechischtn Mythologie
{Berliner Studien fiir classische Philologie und Archaeologie x 2) Berlin 1889 i. 72—120
('Zeus Laphystios und die Athamassage'), A. H. Krappe 'The Story of Phrixos and
Modern Folklore' in Folk-Lore 1923 xxxiv. 141—147, id. 'La legende d'Athamas et de
Phrixos' in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1924 xxxvii. 381—389 (contends that the myth arises from
the fusion of two elements—the ancient custom of sacrificing the king or the king's eldest
son in time of famine, and a familiar type of Mdrchen. Krappe attempts to reconstitute
the original form of the story), J. A. Scott 'The origin of the myth of the golden fleece '
in The Classical Jottrnal 1926—1927 xxii. 541.

i. 416 a sanctuary of Leukothea. A. S. Arvanitopoullos in the 'E0. 'Apx. 1910
pp. 378—382 no. 25 fig. 9 publishes a broken side of white marble, found at I.arissa in
Thessaly, which shows Danae daughter of Aphthonetos on her knees before Leukathea.
The goddess, seated on two blocks of stone, raises her left hand to adjust her himdtion.
In the background is seen the doorway of her circular temple. The inscription, in
lettering of the early third century B.C., runs: AevKa8ta\C[ \ Attract | '" ATdov[ei]Tela
{sc. dvideiKev or the like). See further L. R. Farnell 'Ino-Leukothea' in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1916 xxxvi. 36—44 (a Minyan myth under Creto-Carian influence) and
J. Wackernagel ' AevKaOea' in Glotta 1925 xiv. 44—46 (cj. \evKadebvruv in Hes. sc. Her.
146 6B6vTiov...\evKa Seovruv, cp. Aeiwctt?if eif 'weiss glanzen').

i. 419 n. 5. But, according to O. Rossbach, the text of the cod. Vaticanus gives in
qua iovis in eclum ascendit (L. Deubner in J. Hastings Encyclopcedia of Religion and
Ethics Edinburgh 1913 vi. 5ib). It is tempting to conjecture in qua ovis in caelum
ascendit, 'wearing which the sheep (golden ram) went up to heaven.'

i. 420 n. o. R. Dussaud ' Une epreuve subie dans un chaudron' in the Revue de
Vhistoire des religions J 909 lviii. 309, Gruppe Myth. Lit. 1921 p. 185.

P. Roussel in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1932 xlv. 228 cites R. Mouterde in the Comftes rendus
de I'Acad. des inscr. et belles-lettres 1931 pp. 141—147 an inscription from ' Ahiri in El
Leja recording a thunderstorm and a death by lightning 'A(y)a8rj 'Puxy. | 6Ve rj Kepa(v)v\o-
/3o\i'ct ^7^|£to Ktt[l] (d)7r|e0eu07; (F. Cumont would read KaTairtOe&Bri) | Autros 'Afx\c\d8ov
g\Tovs Kp.. (120 in the era of Bosra= 225/226 A.D.).

i. 422 human 'bears.' Cp. G. C. Moore Smith 'Straw-bear Tuesday' in Folk-Lore
1909 xx. 202 f. with two pis., V. Alford 'The Springtime Bear in the Pyrenees' ib. 1930
xli. 266—279 with pis. 9 and 10, ead. Pyrenean Festivals London 1937 pp. 16—25, 62 f.,
108—in, 144, 225 f., 236 with fig. opposite p. 18 ('The Bear Hunt in French Catalonia'),
Will-Erich Peuckert in the Handworterbuch des dcutschen Aberg/aubens Berlin—Leipzig
1927 i. 893—896 ('Der B[ar] als Vegetationsdamon').