Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals

by J. C. Lawson

[616] It is probably formed from τέντα, ‘a tent,’ which clearly comes from the Latin. Some however derive directly from the anc. Gk τιταίνω. The question of origin however does not affect my illustration of the later change of τ into τσ.

[617] Heard in Sciathos and kindly communicated to me by Mr A. J. B. Wace.

[618] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxv. 6; Dioscor. v. 45; Sophocles Byzant. Lexicon, s.v. ἀρκεύθινος οἶνος.

[619] Marcellus Empir., cap. 20 (p. 139).

[620] Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, p. 380.

[621] Lucian, Zeuxis, cap. 6.

[622] Nonnus, Dionys. 13. 44 καὶ λασίων Σατύρων, Κενταυρίδος αἶμα γενέθλης. This reference I owe to Miss Harrison, l. c.

[623] Iliad, II. 743.

[624] Lucian, Zeuxis, cap. 5.

[625] Isaiah xxxiv. 14.