[646] De bello Gothico, IV. 20 (Niebuhr, 1833, p. 565).
[647] Early Age of Greece, I. pp. 177–8.
[648] Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, p. 382.
[649] Ridgeway, Early Age of Greece, I. p. 174. The vase in question is figured by Colvin in Journ. of Hellenic Studies, Vol. I. p. 131, Pl. 2, and by Miss Harrison, Prolegomena etc. p. 384.
[650] Pind. Pyth. III. 45 ff. (transl. Myers).
[651] Pind. Pyth. IX. 31 ff.
[652] Primitive Culture, Vol. I. p. 308. For a mass of instances, see pp. 308–315.
[653] Op. cit. I. p. 312.
[654] Verg. Ecl. VIII. 95.
[655] Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 178 ff. Cf. also the names Ἄγριος and Ἔλατος (suggesting ἐλάτη, the fir-tree from which their weapons were made) in Apollodor. II. 5. 4. The name Ἄσβολος in Hesiod, meaning ‘soot,’ I cannot interpret; for it is hard to suppose that the ancient Centaurs, like the Callicantzari, came down the chimney. But the word is possibly corrupt; for Ovid (Met. XII. 307) refers to an augur Astylus among the Centaurs.