[111] Christoval de Moluna (1570), p. 5.
[112] Cieza de Leon, p. 183.
[113] Idyll xv.
[114] Sayce, Herodotos, p. 344; Herodotus, ii. 42; Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians (1878, ii. 475, note 2); Plutarch, De Is. et Os., 71, 72; Athenæus, vii. 299; Strabo, xvii. 813.
[115] The Mouse, according to Dalton, is still a totem among the Oraons of Bengal. A man of the Mouse ‘motherhood,’ as the totem kindred is locally styled, may not eat mice (esteemed a delicacy), nor marry a girl who is a Mouse.
[116] xiii. 604. Casaub. 1620.
[117] There were Sminthiac feasts at Rhodes, Gela, Lesbos, and Crete (De Witte, Revue Numismatique, N.S. iii. 3-11).
[118] Iliad, i. 39.
[119] Ælian, H. A., xii. 5.
[120] The bas-relief is published in Paoli’s Della Religi ne de’ Gentili, Naples, 1771, p. 9; also by Fabretti, ad Cal. Oper. de Colum. Trajan., p. 315. Paoli’s book was written after the discovery in Neapolitan territory of a small bronze image, hieratic in character, representing a man with a mouse on his hand. Paoli’s engraving of this work of art, unluckily, does not enable us to determine its date or provenance. The book is a mine of mouse-lore.