Charis., p. 144, 22 K.).--At the _Choes_ the ~rha/mnos~ (i.e. twigs or leaves of it) is _chewed_: this is in order that its powers may be absorbed into the chewer's own body. The Superstitious man (like the Pythia) puts laurel leaves in his mouth ~kai\ hou/tô tê\n hême/ran peripatei=~: also at the _Choes_? Thphr., _Ch._ 16. The laurel in addition to its other marvellous properties can also drive off spirits: ~e/ntha a\n hê=| da/phnê, ekpodô\n dai/mones~, _Gp._ 11, 2, 5-7. Lyd., _Mens._ 4, 4, p. 68, 9 Wü.] [96\5: Sch. Ar., _Ach._ 961, p. 26, 8 ff. Dübn.--At the ~nekrô=n dei=pna~ the souls of the departed members of the family are summoned by the ~prosê/kontes~ to come and take their share (with the single exception of those who have hanged themselves): Artemid. i, 4, p. 11, 10 f. H. (cf. what is said of the ~neku/sia~ in Bithynia by Arr. ap. Eust., ~i~ 65, p. 1615). The same thing must have happened at the Anthesteria.] [97\5: Worshippers offered the ~chu/tran panspermi/as~ to Hermes ~hilasko/menoi to\n Hermê=n kai\ peri\ tô=n apothano/ntôn~, Sch. Ar., _Ach._ 1076 (Didymus from Theopomp.)--~tou\s to/te paragenome/nous~ (read ~periginome/nous~, viz. from the Flood) ~hupe\r tô=n apothano/ntôn hila/sasthai to\n Hermê=n~, Sch. Ar., _Ran._ 218 (after Theop.). The offering was merely placed ready for the recipients (not sent up to heaven in flames and smoke) as was customary at the Theoxenia (esp. those in honour of chthonic deities) and in offerings made to Heroes. The ~Heka/tês dei=pna~ were similar, and particularly the offerings to the Erinyes: ~ta\ pempo/mena autai=s hiera\ po/pana kai\ ga/la en a/ggesi keramei/ois~, Sch. Aeschin. i, 188.] {199} [98\5: _EM._ 774, 56: ~Hudropho/ria; heortê\ Athê/nêsi pe/nthimos~ (so far Hesych. too, s.v.) ~epi\ toi=s en tô=| kataklusmô=| apolome/nois~. The feast of _Chytrai_ was also supposed to have been a commemoration of Deucalion's Flood. The flood was said to have subsided finally through a cleft in the earth in the Temple of ~Gê= Olumpi/a~: Paus. 1, 18, 7. Pausanias adds, ~esba/llousin es auto\~ (the chasm) ~ana\ pa=n e/tos a/lphita purô=n me/liti ma/xantes~. It is at least natural, with Preller, _Dem. u. Pers._ 229, n., to see in the _Hydrophoria_ a part of which is described by Pausanias, a festival related to the Chytrai. Connexion of the dead with ~Gê=~ in the ~Gene/sia~ too: Hesych. s.v.--~Hudropho/ria~ a feast of Apollo at Aegina: Sch. Pi., _N._ v, 81 (fanciful remarks thereon by K. O. Müller, in _Aesch. Eum._, p. 141 [116 E.T.]).]