[499] Cfr. the chapter on the Hare.
[500] Plutarch, in the Life of Marcellus, Arrianos and Appianos among the Greeks, Livy, Cicero (De Divinatione), Pliny the elder, Julius Capitolinus, Julius Obsequens among the Latins.
[501] Éba kai táuros an hülan, xiv. 43. In Theokritos, the proverb is used to intimate that he is gone to other and perfidious loves; he, too, is a traitor.
[502] Rerum gestarum, xxii.—Cfr. the episode of the ox which lets itself fall into the marsh or swamp, in the various versions of the first book of the Pańćatantram.—The astrologers placed the brain under the protection of the moon, and the heart under that of the sun; Celoria, La Luna, Milano, 1871.
[503] Kadmeiôn Basilêas egeinato; Phoinissai, 835.
[504] Boiotia.
[505] Metam., iii. 10.—Cfr. Nonnos, Dionys., iv. 290, and following.
[506] Or, on the path of the sun in the sky.
[507] In an unpublished Piedmontese story, which is very widely spread, the girl carried off by robbers escapes from their hands, and hides in the trunk of a tree.
[508] De Quadrupedibus Bisulcis, i.