GREEK QUESTIONS.

By the Same Hand.

1. Who are they at Epidaurus called Κονίποδες and Ἄρτυνοι? 265. 2.

What woman did the Cumans call Onobatis? 265. 3. Who is the

Ὑπεκκαύστρια among the Solenses? 266. 4. Who

are the Ἀμνήμονες among the Cnidians, and who is the Ἀφεστήρ? 266.

5. Who were the Χρηστοί among the Arcadians and Lacedaemonians?

266. 6. Who is Κριθολόγος among the Opuntians? 266. 7. What sort of

clouds are the Ploiades? 266. 8. Who is called Platychaetas among the

Boeotians? 267. 9. Who at Delphi is called Ὁσιωτήρ? 267. 10. What is

Phyxemelum? 268. 11. Who are the Ἀποσφενδόνητοι? 268. 12. What was

Charila among the Delphians? 268. 13. What is the beggars’ meat among

the Aenianes? 270. 14. Who were the Coliads among the Ithacans? what

was a φάγιλος? 271. 15. What is the wooden dog among the Locrians?

271. 16. What thing do the Megarians call ἀφάβρωμα? 272. 17. Who was

called δορύξενος? 272. 18. What is παλιντοκία? 273. 19. What is the

Anthedon of which Pythia speaks? 273. 20. What is meant at Priene by

darkness at the Oak? 274. 21. Who in Crete were called Κατακαῦται?

274. 22. What was the Sepulchre of the Boys at Chalcedon? 275. 23.

Who at Argos are Μιξαρχαγέτας and Ἐλάσιοι? 276. 24. What at Argos

is ἔγκνισμα? 276. 25. Who are Ἀλάστωρ, Ἀλιτήριος, and Παλαμναῖος?

276. 26. What is the meaning of a verse sung by certain virgins of

Aenos? 276. 27. Why at Rhodes does the crier never enter the chapel

of Ocridion? 277. 28. Why at Tenedos does no piper enter the temple,

nor must Achilles be named there? 277. 29. Who was the πωλήτης at

Epidamnus? 278. 30. What is the shore of Araenus, in Thrace? 278.

31. Why at the feast of Ceres do the women of Eretria roast meat by

the sun? 279. 32. Who at Miletus were the Ἀειναῦται? 279. 33. Why

do the Chalcidians call a certain place Ἀκμαίων Λέσχη? 279. 34. Who

was he that sacrificed an ox to his benefactor? 280. 35. Why did the

Bottiaean maids sing, “Let us go to Athens”? 280. 36. Why do the

Eleian women in their hymns say, “O Bacchus, come with an ox foot”?

281. 37. Why is a place at Tanagra called Achilleum? 281. 38. Who

among the Boeotians were the Ψολόεις, and the Ὀλεῖαι? 282. 39. Why

do the Arcadians stone those who go willingly into the Lycaeum, &c.?

282. 40. Who is Eunostus, the hero of Tanagra, and why may not women

enter his grove? 283. 41. How came there to be a river in Boeotia

called Scamander? 284. 42. Whence the saying, “Let this prevail”?

285. 43. Why is the city of the Ithacans called Alalcomenae? 285.

44. Who are the Monophagi in Aegina? 286. 45. Why does a statue of

Jupiter in Caria carry an axe and not a thunderbolt? 286. 46. Why

do the Trallians call the pulse ὄροβος καθαρτής? 287. 47. Why do

the Eleans say, “worse than Sambicus”? 287. 48. Why is the temple

of Ulysses at Lacedaemon near the monument of Leucippides? 287. 49.

Why do the women of Chalcedon, on meeting other women’s husbands,

cover one cheek? 288. 50. Why do the Argives bring their sheep to the

grove of Agenor, &c.? 289. 51. Why did the Argive boys in sport call

themselves Ballacrades? 289. 52. Why do the men of Elis lead their

mares out of their borders, &c.? 289. 53. Why was it a custom amongst

the Gnossians that they who borrowed money upon usury should snatch

it up and run away? 289. 54. Why in Samos do they call upon Venus of

Dexicreon? 289. 55. Why in Samos, when they sacrifice to Mercury, do

they allow stealing? 290. 56. Why in Samos is there a place called

Πάναιμα? 290. 57. Why in Samos was the Andron called Pedetes? 290.

58. Why is the priest of Hercules in Cos clothed in women’s apparel?

291. 59. Whence the race of Hamaxocylists in Megara? 292.

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