[323] Cf. Ridgeway, The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse, p. 510. A similar case occurs in a painting representing the victory of Rameses II over the Hittites, figured in Meyer's Geschichte des alten Aegyptens (plate following p. 290).
[324] Cauer, Grundfragen d. Homerkritik2, p. 294 ff.
[325] It is uncertain whether the sanctuaries of Apollo at Pytho (Delphoi) and of Poseidon at Scheria (Il. IX 404 f., Od. VIII 79 ff., VI 266 f.) are regarded as temples; cf. Cauer, op. cit. p. 301 f. In the former case however it is decidedly probable.
[326] Many well-known survivals of such usage occur in Greece itself.
[327] Adam Brem. IV 27: corpora autem suspenduntur in lucum qui proximus est templo. is enim lucus tam sacer est gentilibus ut singulae arbores eius ex morte uel tabo immolatorum diuinae credantur. Cf. also the (contemporary) schol. 134: prope illud templum est arbor maxima late ramos extendens, semper uiridis in hieme et aestate, cuius illa generis sit nemo scit. ibi etiam est fons ubi sacrificia paganorum solent exerceri et homo uiuus immergi. qui dum non inuenitur ratum erit uotum populi.
Σπερχεί', ἄλλως σοί γε πατὴρ ἠρήσατο Πηλεὺς
κεῖσέ με νοστήσαντα φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν
σοί τε κόμην κερέειν ῥέξειν θ' ἱερὴν ἑκατόμβην,
πεντήκοντα δ' ἔνορχα παρ' αὐτόθι μῆλ' ἱερεύσειν
ἐς πηγάς ὅθι τοι τέμενος βωμός τε θυήεις.
[329] The Appendices in Miss Stawell's Homer and the Iliad (pp. 238-326) suggest that many of the instances commonly cited are due to insufficient consideration.
[330] Fragm. 189, Boeckh.
[331] Cf. Mimnermos, fragm. 9. 5 f. (Bergk), Herodotus, I 150, etc. According to Pausanias (V 8. 7) Smyrna had become Ionic before the year 688; cf. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, S.-B. der Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, 1906, p. 52, note.