Among the wilder myths which grouped themselves round the figure of Apollo was the fable that his mother Leto was changed into a wolf. The fable ran that Leto, in the shape of a wolf, came in twelve days from the Hyperboreans to Delos.** This may be explained as a _volks-etymologie_ from the god's name, "Lycegenes," which is generally held to mean "born of light". But the presence of very many animals in the Apollo legend and in his temples, corresponding as it does to similar facts already observed in the religion of the lower races, can scarcely be due to popular etymologies alone. The Dolphin-Apollo has already been remarked. * The French excavators in Delos found the original unhewn stone on which, in later days, the statue of the anthropomorphic god was based. ** Aristotle, Hist. An., vi 86; Elian., N. A., iv. 4; Schol. on Apol. Rhod., ii. 12 There are many traces of connection between Apollo and the wolf. In Athens there was the Lyceum of Apollo Lukios, Wolf-Apollo, which tradition connected with the primeval strife wherein Ægeus (goat-man) defeated Lukios (wolfman). The Lukian Apollo was the deity of the defeated side, as Athene of the Ægis (goat-skin) was the deity of the victors.* The Argives had an Apollo of the same kind, and the wolf was stamped on their coins.** According to Pausanias, when Danaus came seeking the kingship of Argos, the people hesitated between him and Gelanor. While they were in doubt, a wolf attacked a bull, and the Argives determined that the bull should stand for Gelanor, the wolf for Danaus. The wolf won; Danaus was made king, and in gratitude raised an altar to _Apollo Lukios_, Wolf-Apollo. That is (as friends of the totemic system would argue), a man of the wolf-stock dedicated a shrine to the wolf-god.*** In Delphi the presence of a bronze image of a wolf was explained by the story that a wolf once revealed the place where stolen temple treasures were concealed. The god's beast looked after the god's interest.**** In many myths the children of Apollo by mortal girls were exposed, but fostered by wolves.***** In direct contradiction with Pausanias, but in accordance with a common rule of mythical interpretation, Sophocles****** calls Apollo "the wolf-slayer". * Paus., i. 19, 4. ** Preller, i. 202, note 3; Paus., ii. 19, 3. *** Encyc. Brit., s. v. "Sacrifice". **** Paus., x. 14, 4. ***** Ant. Lib., 30. ****** _Electra_, 6., 222