2504 (return) [ The reference is apparently to something in the body of
the hymn, now lost.]
2505 (return) [ The Greeks feared to name Pluto directly and mentioned
him by one of many descriptive titles, such as ‘Host of Many’: compare
the Christian use of O DIABOLOS or our ‘Evil One’.]
2506 (return) [ Demeter chooses the lowlier seat, supposedly as being
more suitable to her assumed condition, but really because in her
sorrow she refuses all comforts.]
2507 (return) [ An act of communion—the drinking of the potion here
described—was one of the most important pieces of ritual in the
Eleusinian mysteries, as commemorating the sorrows of the goddess.]
2508 (return) [ Undercutter and Woodcutter are probably popular names
(after the style of Hesiod’s ‘Boneless One’) for the worm thought to be
the cause of teething and toothache.]
2509 (return) [ The list of names is taken—with five additions—from
Hesiod, _Theogony_ 349 ff.: for their general significance see note on
that passage.]
2510 (return) [ Inscriptions show that there was a temple of Apollo
Delphinius (cp. ii. 495-6) at Cnossus and a Cretan month bearing the
same name.]