[876] Pausan. VI. 2. 5.
[877] Tatian, adv. Graecos, I. Cf. Bouché Leclercq, Hist. de la Divin. I. p. 170.
[878] In Zagorion in Epirus, the ram is sacrificed on the entrance of the bride to her new home (cf. the sacrifice of a cock mentioned below). Λαμπρίδης, Ζαγοριακά, p. 183.
[879] Curtius Wachsmuth, Das alte Griechenland im Neuen, p. 86.
[880] In Macedonia the weasel is said on the contrary to be a good omen. Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, p. 108.
[881] Λαμπρίδης, Ζαγοριακά, p. 203.
[882] Theophr. Char. 16.
[883] Theocr. Id. II. 35.
[884] So too in antiquity apparently according to Propertius IV. (V.) 3. 60; Ovid (Heroid. XIX. 151) on the contrary reckons it a good omen.
[885] Theocr. Id. III. 37 ἄλλεται ὀφθαλμός μευ ὁ δεξιός· ἆρά γ’ ἰδησῶ | αὐτάν; the order of the words, it will be seen, justifies the emphasis which I have given to δεξιός and to αὐτάν.