[886] Dialog. Meretric. 9. 2.
[887] The significance of right and left in this case is reversed in Macedonia (cf. Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, p. 112). But in all these instances I am only giving what I have found to be the commonest form of the superstition in Greece as a whole.
[888] Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, p. 111.
[889] The word ψοφῶ is properly used only of the dying of animals.
[890] ἐπέπταρε πᾶσιν ἔπεσσιν.
[891] Hom. Od. XVII. 539 ff. Cf. Xenoph. Anab. III. 2. 9 and Catull. XLV. 9 and 18.
[893] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων, III. p. 22.
[894] e.g. at the oracle of Hermes Agoraeus at Pherae the enquirer performed the whole ceremony required and obtained his response without the intervention of any priest or seer. Cf. above, p. [305].