[265] Pantheon, p. 271. Am. edition. Baltimore, 1830.
[266] For much of interest about the laurel, see Plant-lore Legends and Lyrics, p. 404, by Richard Folkard, Jr. London, 1884.
[267] Thessaly.
[268] The literal meaning of Telesphorus is “bringing to an end;” of Euemerion, “prosperous, or glorious;” and of Acesius, “health-giving.”
[269] Pantheon.
[270] Tooke states that by genius is generally meant “that spirit of nature which produces all things, from which generative power it has its name.... The images of the genii resembled, for the most part, the form of a serpent. Sometimes they were described like a boy, a girl, or an old man.” Pantheon, p. 240.
[271] Zend Avesta.
[272] Herodotus, i, 140.
[273] See Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. ii, p. 245.
[274] Phædo.