[677] Verg. Aen. V. 84 ff.
[678] Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, 272. Cf. above, p. [156].
[679] De quor. Graec. opinat. cap. XXI.
[680] B. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 185.
[681] i.e. οἰκοκύριος, with initial ν attached (first in the accusative) from the article (τὸν) preceding. This is the ordinary word for ‘the master of a house.’
[682] i.e. δαίμων τοῦ τόπου. The word is used in Cythnos and Cyprus. Cf. Βάλληνδας, Κυθνιακά, p. 124. Σακελλάριος, Κυπριακά, III. p. 286.
[683] For detailed stories in point, see Leo Allatius, l. c., B. Schmidt, op. cit. pp. 186, 187.
[684] Char. 16.
[685] Suidas, s.vv. οἰωνιστική and Ξενοκράτης.