[307] Pind. Nem. V. 36.
[308] Hom. Od. 13. 102 ff.
[309] Cf. e.g. Passow, Popularia Carmina, Distichs 552–3.
[310] Hahn, Griech. Märchen, vol. I. no. 15. ‘Ihre ganze Kraft steckt aber in den Kleidern, und wenn man ihnen die wegnimmt, so sind sie machtlos.’
[311] To form a chain of dancers the leader, who occupies the extreme right, is linked to the second in the row by a kerchief, while the rest merely join hands. More freedom of motion is thus allowed to the chief performer.
[312] Cf. also Hahn, Griech. Märchen, vol. II. no. 77. Ἀντ. Βάλληνδας, Κυθνιακά, p. 123.
[313] The crowing of the third cock is more usually the signal for the departure of Nereids and their kind. It is commonly held that the white cock crows first, the red second, and the black third. The last is a sure saviour from the assaults of all manner of demons.
[314] Similar transformations occur in a Cretan story, the forms assumed being those of dog, snake, camel, and fire. Χουρμούζης, Κρητικά, p. 69.
[315] Cf. Apollodorus, III. 13. 5.
[316] Bern. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 104, quoting Ritschl, Ino Leucothea, Pl. I., II. (1 and 2), III.; and referring to a sarcophagus in the Corsini Gallery at Rome, figured in Monum. Ined. vol. VI. Pl. XXVI.