[665] _Galat._ iv. 9. [666] Passow, _Popul. Carm._ no. 524. According to Σκαρλάτος (Λεξικόν, s.v.) στοιχειόν is sometimes a term of abuse; on that statement I base my interpretation of the folk-song. [667] Du Cange, s.v. [668] Du Cange, s.v. [669] Georg. Cedrenus (circ. 1050) _Historiarum Compendium_, p. 197 (edit. Paris). [670] Cedrenus, _ibid._ [671] στοιχεῖον pro eo quod τέλεσμα (whence by Arabic corruption our ‘talisman’) vocant Graeci, usurpant alii. Du Cange, _ibid._ [672] Codinus (15th century), _de Originibus Constantinop._ p. 30 (edit. Paris) § 63. [673] Codinus, _ibid._ p. 20. § 39. [674] _De quor. Graec. opinat._ cap. XXI. [675] The active of the verb also survives in a special sense, for which see below, p. 267. The modern form is στοιχειόνω: cf. δηλόνω for δηλόω, etc. [676] See above, p. 69. [677] Verg. _Aen._ V. 84 ff. [678] _Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite_, 272. Cf. above, p. 156. [679] _De quor. Graec. opinat._ cap. XXI. [680] B. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 185. [681] i.e. οἰκοκύριος, with initial ν attached (first in the accusative) from the article (τὸν) preceding. This is the ordinary word for ‘the master of a house.’ [682] i.e. δαίμων τοῦ τόπου. The word is used in Cythnos and Cyprus. Cf. Βάλληνδας, Κυθνιακά, p. 124. Σακελλάριος, Κυπριακά, III. p. 286. [683] For detailed stories in point, see Leo Allatius, _l. c._, B. Schmidt, _op. cit._ pp. 186, 187. [684] _Char._ 16. [685] Suidas, s.vv. οἰωνιστική and Ξενοκράτης. [686] s.v. ὄφιν οἰκουρόν. [687] VIII. 41. [688] Cf. Passow, _Popul. Carm._, Index, s.v. στοιχεῖον. [689] Πολίτης, Μελέτη, p. 134. [690] Πολίτης, _l. c._ [691] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. III. p. 155. [692] Καμπούρογλου, _op. cit._ I. 226. [693] e.g. Passow, _Popul. Carm._ nos. 511, 512. [694] Ἀντωνιάδης, Κρητηΐς, p. 247 (from Πολίτης, _op. cit._ p. 141). [695] Πολίτης, _ibid._ [696] Ἰατρίδης, Συλλογὴ δημοτ. ἀσμάτων, pp. 28-30 (Πολίτης, _ibid._). [697] W. H. D. Rouse in _Folklore_, June, 1899 (Vol. x. no. 2), pp. 182 ff. [698] Passow, no. 511, and Ζαμπέλιος, Ἄσματα δημοτικὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος, p. 757. [699] So Bern. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 196. Ἰατρίδης, Συλλογὴ δημοτ. ἀσμάτων, p. 93, mentions also a dog. [700] So also in Zacynthos and Cephalonia. Bern. Schmidt, _op. cit._ p. 196. [701] e.g. in Cimolus, Bent, _The Cyclades_, p. 45. [702] Cf. Ricaut, _Hist. de l’église grecque_, pp. 369-70. [703] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. III. p. 148. [704] _The Cyclades_, p. 132. [705] Πολίτης, Μελέτη, p. 138. [706] Ricaut, _Hist. de l’église grecque_, p. 367 (from Πολίτης, _ibid._). [707] Ἰατρίδης, Συλλογὴ δημοτ. ἀσμάτων, p. 28. [708] _Das Volksleben_, p. 196, note 2. [709] Since this was written, a new work of Prof. Polites ( Μελέται περὶ τοῦ βίου καὶ τῆς γλώσσης τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ λαοῦ, Παραδόσεις) has come into my hands, and I find that he has modified his views. Cf. below, pp. 272-3, where I insert a suggestion made by Polites, _op. cit._ II. p. 1089.