910 Ovid, _Metam._ x. 735, compared with Bion i. 66. The latter, however, makes the anemone spring from the tears, as the rose from the blood of Adonis. 911 W. Robertson Smith, “Ctesias and the Semíramis legend,” in _English Historical Review_, April 1887, following Lagarde. 912 In the Alexandrian ceremony, however, it appears to have been the image of Adonis only which was thrown into the sea. 913 Apollodorus, _Biblioth._ iii. 14, 4; Schol. on Theocritus, i. 109; Antoninus Liberalis, 34; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 829; Ovid, _Metam._ x. 489 _sqq._; Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ v. 72, and on _Bucol._ x. 18; Hyginus, _Fab._ 58, 164; Fulgentius, iii. 8. The word Myrrha or Smyrna is borrowed from the Phoenician (Liddell and Scott, _Greek Lexicon_, _s.v._ σμύρνα). Hence the mother’s name, as well as the son’s, was taken directly from the Semites. 914 Schol. on Theocritus, iii. 48; Hyginus, _Astronom._ ii. 7; Lucian, _Dialog. deor._ xi. 1; Cornutus, _De natura deorum_, 28, p. 163 _sq._ ed. Osannus; Apollodorus, iii. 14, 4. 915 Thus, after the autumnal equinox the Egyptians celebrated the “nativity of the sun’s walking-sticks,” because, as the sun declined daily in the sky, and his heat and light diminished, he was supposed to need a staff with which to support his steps. Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 52. 916 Schol. on Theocritus, iii. 48, ὁ Ἄδωνις, ἤγουν ὁ σῖτος ὁ σπειρόμενος, ἒξ μῆνας ἐν τῇ γῇ ποιεῖ ἀπὸ τῆς σπορᾶς, καὶ ἒξ μῆνας ἔχει αὐτὸν ἡ Ἀφροδίτη, τουτέστιν ἡ εὐκρασία τοῦ ἀέρος. καὶ ἐκτότε λαμβάνουσιν αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνθρωποι. Jerome on Ezech. c. viii. 14. _Eadem gentilitas hujuscemodi fabulas poetarum, quae habent turpitudinem, interpretatur subtiliter interfectionem et resurrectionem Adonidis planctu et gaudio prosequens: quorum alterum in seminibus, quae moriuntur in terra, alterum in segetibus, quibus mortua semina renascuntur, ostendi putat._ Ammianus Marcellinus, xix. 1, 11, _in sollemnibus Adonidis sacris, quod simulacrum aliquod esse frugum adultarum religiones mysticae docent_. Id. xxii. 9, 15, _amato Veneris, ut fabulae fingunt, apri dente ferali deleto, quod in adulto flore sectarum est indicium frugum_. Clemens Alexandr. _Hom._ 6, 11 (quoted by W. Mannhardt, _Antike Wald- und Feldkulte_, p. 281), λάμβανουσι δὲ καὶ Ἄδωνιν εἰς ὡραίους καρπούς. Etymolog. Magn. Ἄδωνις κύριον; δύναται καὶ ὁ καρπὸς εἶναι ἄδωνις; οἷον ἀδώνειος καρπός, ἀρέσκων. Eusebius, _Praepar. Evang._ iii. 11, 9, Ἄδωνις τῆς τῶν τελείων καρπῶν ἐκτομῆς σύμβολον. 917 D. Chwolsohn, _Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus_, ii. 27; _id._, _Ueber Tammûz und die Menschenverehrung bei den alten Babyloniern_, p. 38. 918 The comparison is due to Felix Liebrecht (_Zur Volkskunde_, p. 259).