[1409] Lucian, de Luctu 11. Aristoph. Lysist. 602 etc.

[1410] The influence of the Church was against the use of garlands in early times and perhaps suppressed it in some districts. Cf. Minucius, p. 109 ‘Nec mortuos coronamus. Ergo vos (the heathen) in hoc magis miror, quemadmodum tribuatis exanimi aut [non] sentienti facem aut non sentienti coronam: cum et beatus non egeat, et miser non gaudeat floribus.’ The first non is clearly to be deleted.

[1411] Cf. Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, p. 193.

[1412] Cf. ibid. p. 197.

[1413] Hom. Hymn. in Demet. 372 ff. Hence the pomegranate was treated as ‘an accursed thing’ in the worship of Demeter at Lycosura, Paus. VIII. 37. 7.

[1414] Paus. II. 17. 4.

[1415] See above, p. [548].

[1416] See above, p. [80].

[1417] The following references are in the main taken from Lobeck, Aglaophamus.

[1418] Soph. Fragm. 719 (Dind.).