[138] Plutarch, _de defect. orac._ 17. [139] _Idyll._ I. 15. [140] _Ps._ 91. 6. [141] _De quorumdam Graecorum opinationibus_, cap. VIII. [142] Du Cange, _Lex. med. et infim. Latin_, s.v. [143] Clarke, _Catalogue of Sculptures in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge_. [144] The population of Eleusis, as of many villages in Attica, is mainly Albanian; but they have inherited many of the old Greek superstitions and customs. [145] Lenormant, _Monographie de la voie sacrée éleusinienne_, p. 399 ff. [146] “The diminutive in Albanian of Nicolas is Kolio: in the choice of this name is there not a reminiscence of that of Celeus?”--so Lenormant in a note. The suggestion does not appear to me very probable. [147] Opposite Eleusis in Salamis. [148] Euseb. _Chron._ p. 27. Plut. _Vita Thes._ XXXI. _ad fin._ [149] Paus. VIII. 15. [150] Conon, _Narrat._ 15. [151] _Tour through Greece_, II. p. 440. [152] _Travels in the Morea_, III. p. 148. [153] Paus. VIII. 42. 1-4, and 25. 5. [154] Schol. in Ar. _Ran._ 441. Aelian, _Hist. Anim._ X. 16. [155] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, II. 44 ff. (2nd edit.). [156] Herod. II. 171. [157] Aelian, _l.c._ [158] Herod. II. 47. Plut. _Isis et Osiris_, 8 (Moral. 354). Aelian, _l.c._ [159] _Märchen_ etc. Song no. 56. [160] Above, p. 53. [161] Schmidt, _Märchen_ etc. no. VII. [162] Paus. VIII. 42. 1 ff. [163] Paus. VIII. 42. 2. [164] Schuchhardt, _Schliemann’s Excavations_ (tr. Sellers), p. 296. [165] _Ibid._ [166] Paus. II. 22. 1. [167] _op. cit._ p. 147. [168] _op. cit._ p. 302. [169] Schuchhardt, _op. cit._ p. 151, and Leaf’s introduction, p. XXVII. Cf. Frazer in _Journal of Philology_, XIV. 145 ff. [170] Schuchhardt, _op. cit._ p. 151. [171] _op. cit._ p. 303. [172] Frazer in _Journal of Philology_, XIV. pp. 145 ff. [173] Paus. I. 18. 3. [174] _Id._ IX. 36. [175] _Iliad_ IX. 404-5. [176] _Griech. und Albanesische Märchen_, nos. 63 and 97. [177] ‘die Schöne der Erde’ in von Hahn’s translation. Unfortunately the original does not appear in Pio’s Νεοελληνικὰ παραμύθια, for which the MSS. of von Hahn provided the material. [178] Cf. Plut. _Vita Thes._ 31, _ad fin._ [179] For references see Schmidt, _Das Volksleben der Neugr._ p. 222. [180] Passow, _Popul. Carm. Graeciae recentioris_. Carm. no. 408. [181] Χασιώτης, Συλλογὴ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἤπειρον δημοτικῶν ἀσμάτων, p. 169. [182] Passow, _op. cit._ no. 423. [183] Πολίτης, Μελέτη ἐπὶ τοῦ βίου τῶν νεωτέρων Ἑλλήνων, p. 290. [184] Bernhard Schmidt, _Märchen_ etc. p. 81. [185] Kindly communicated to me by Mr G. F. Abbott, author of _Macedonian Folklore_. [186] B. Schmidt, _Märchen_ etc. Song no. 39. [187] Cf. Passow, no. 428. [188] _Ibid._ no. 430. [189] Above, p. 53. [190] _e.g._ Passow, no. 427. [191] Cf. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 230.