[1132]. Diodorus Siculus, iv. 84.
[1133]. Pausanias, viii. 23. 8 sq. For notices of forests and groves of oak in Arcadia and other parts of Greece, see id. ii. 11. 4, iii. 10. 6, vii. 26. 10, viii. 11. 1, viii. 25. 1, viii. 42. 12, viii. 54. 5, ix. 3. 4, ix. 24. 5. The oaks in the Arcadian forests were of various species (id. viii. 12. 1).
[1134]. C. Neumann und J. Partsch, Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland (Breslau, 1885), p. 378.
[1135]. Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Ed., xvii. 690.
[1136]. Virgil, Georg., i. 7 sq., 147-149; Lucretius, v. 939 sq., 965; Tibullus, ii. 1. 37 sq., ii. 3. 69; Ovid, Metam. i. 106; id., Fasti, i. 675 sq., iv. 399-402; Juvenal, xiv. 182-184; Aulus Gellius, v. 6. 12; Dionysius Halicarnas. Ars rhetorica, i. 6, vol. v. p. 230, ed. Reiske; Pollux, i. 234; Poryphry, De abstinentia, ii. 5.
[1137]. Hesiod, Works and Days, 232 sq.
[1138]. Herodotus, i. 66.
[1139]. Pausanias, viii. 1, 6. According to Pausanias it was only the acorns of the phegos oak which the Arcadians ate.
[1140]. Pliny, Nat. Hist. xvi. 15.
[1141]. Strabo, iii. 3. 7, p. 155.