For the good service done by Pan to the Athenians at Marathon, he was rewarded with a temple.—Herod. vi. 405.
[10] ἐπ αὐτῆς τῆς ναυηχίδος, literally, in the admiral.
[11] κατὰ τῆς αποβάθρας.
[12] εὑφημοῦντες. Especial care was taken during a sacrifice, that no inauspicious or frivolous words were uttered by any of the bystanders; hence the admonitions of the priest,—εῦφημεῖτε, εὐφημία, σιγᾶτε, σιωπᾶτε, favete linguis, and others; for improper expressions were thought not only to pollute the sacred act, but to be unlucky omens.
"Male ominatis,
Parcite verbis."
Hor. iii. Od. xiv. 11.
[13] υπoβεβρεγμένoι.
[14] ἐγκόμβωμα.
[15] See the legend in Ovid Met. i. 689.
[16] άνίσους, καθ' ὃτι καὶ ὁ ἔρως ἄνισος αὐτοῖς.
[17] "La Pantomime est le premier langage de l'homme; elle est connue de toutes les nations."—Bernardin de St. Pierre.