[99] Pausanias, ii. 32. 3.
[100] Servius on Virgil, Aen. v. 72; Pausanias, vi. 24. 7. As to the myrtle and Aphrodite, see C. Boetticher, Der Baumkultus der Hellenen, pp. 444 sqq.; V. Hehn, Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere⁷ (Berlin, 1902), pp. 220 sqq.
[101] Pausanias, i. 22. 1; Euripides, Hippolytus, 30 sqq., with the scholiast’s note; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 62; J. Tzetzes, Scholia on Lycophron, 1329.
[102] Pausanias, ii. 32. 6 Ἀφροδίτης Ἀσκραίας, where Bekker and all subsequent editors have changed Ἀσκραίας into Ἀκραίας. But Ἀσκραίας has the better manuscript authority. The title is derived from askra, “a fruitless oak” (Hesychius, s.v. ἄσκρα). See Mr. A. B. Cook, “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review, xvii, (1903) pp. 415 sq.
[103] Pausanias, ii. 32. 10. In Greek saronis is a hollow oak. See Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus, 22; Hesychius and Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. σαρωνίδες; A. B. Cook, “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review, xviii. (1904) p. 370. Mythology derived the name Saronian from a certain Saron, an ancient king of Troezen and a mighty hunter, who had been drowned while swimming after a doe (Pausanias, ii. 30. 7). In this mythical hunter associated with Artemis we may perhaps detect a duplicate of Hippolytus.
[104] Pausanias, ii. 31. 4, 8, and 9.
[105] See Kühner-Blass, Grammatik der griech. Sprache, ii. 288 sq.
[106] Pausanias, ii. 27. 4.
[107] Pausanias, ii. 33. 2 with my commentary, vol. iii. pp. 285 sq. vol. v. pp. 596 sqq.
[108] Strabo, v. 1. 4, 8, and 9, pp. 212, 214 sq. As to the topography, see Bunbury in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, s.v. “Timavus”; H. Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, ii. 233. I have to thank my friend Mr. A B. Cook for drawing my attention to the association of the horse and wolf in the early cults of Greece and Italy.