[67]. Hor. Od. iii. 4, 62: Delius aut Patareus Apollo. Stat. Theb. i. 696:
... Seu te Lyciæ Pataræa nivosis
Exercent dumeta jugis.
Virg. Æn. iv. 143:
Qualis ubi hibernam Lyciam Xanthique fluenta
Deserit, ac Delum maternam invisit Apollo.
On which passage Servius makes the remark that the oracles were delivered alternately,—during the winter months at Patara, and during the summer at Delos.
[68]. Cicero uses the Ethnic form Pataranus (Orat. in Flacc. c. 32).
Pinara, at the foot of Mount Cragus, was another of the six Lycian towns in which divine honours were paid to the hero Pandarus, Homer’s celebrated archer: its name is said to be a Lycian word for a round hill (v. Ἀρτύμνησος, ap. Ptol.; Plin. v. 28; Hierocl. p. 684); and such a hill, pierced everywhere for tombs, Fellows found, as we have stated, in the very centre of it. Such a physical feature would not have been overlooked by any Greeks. He adds that “the whole city appears to be of one date and people,” the inscriptions being generally in the Lycian character.[[69]] The carvings on the rock-tombs here, judging from the drawing he gives (p. 141), are of much interest and beauty.
[69]. Colonel Leake (Roy. Soc. Lit. i. p. 267) was of the opinion that the Lycian characters were modifications of Archaic Greek.