[900] The latter Greeks expressed Puramoun, Puramous.
ΠYΡΑΜΟΥΣ, a cake. Ην ὁ Πυραμους παρα τοις παλαιοις επινικιος. Artemidorus. l. 1. c. 74. Και ὁ διαγρυπνησας μεχρι την ἑω ελαμβανε τον πυραμουντα. Schol. Aristoph. Ἱππεις.
See Meuisius on Lycophron. v. 593. and Hesych. πυραμους, ειδος πλακουντος.
[901] ΟΒΕΛΙΑΙ, placentæ. Athenæus. l. 14. p. 645.
[902] Νυν θυσω τα ΠΙΤYΡΑ. Theocritus. Idyl. 2. v. 33.
[903] Athenæus. l. 14. p. 646.
[904] Diogenes Laertius: Vita Empedoclis. l.8.
[905] Some read εθαυμασε. Cedrenus. p. 82. Some have thought, that by βουν was meant an Ox: but Pausanias says, that these offerings were πεμματα: and moreover tells us; ὁποσα εχει ψυχην, τουτων μεν ηξιωσεν ουδεν θυσαι. Cecrops sacrificed nothing that had life. Pausan. l. 8. p. 600.
[906] Jeremiah. c. 44. v. 18, 19.
[907] Ibid. c. 7. v. l8.