[242]. Ibid., Bk. ii., c. 5.

[243]. Demosthenes, De Corona, 270.

[244]. Smythe, Melic Poets, p. 158. Cf. also Oliphant’s learned article “The Story of the Strix: Ancient” in “Transactions of the Am. Philol. Asso.”, Boston, 1913, vol. xliv.

[245]. Aesop, Babrius, 49.

[246]. Idylls, xv, 40.

[247]. Callimachus, Artem., 66ff.

[248]. Scholion on Theocritus, Idylls, xv, 49.

[249]. Hellenica, 4.

[250]. Peace, 474.

[251]. Frogs, 925.