1204 Homer, _Il._ xviii. 570; Herodotus, ii. 79; Pausanias, ix. 29; Conon, _Narrat._ 19. For the form Ailinus see Suidas, _s.v._; Euripides, _Orestes_, 1395; Sophocles, _Ajax_, 627. Cp. Moschus, _Idyl._ iii. 1; Callimachus, _Hymn to Apollo_, 20. 1205 Conon, _l.c._ 1206 W. Mannhardt, _A. W. F._ p. 281. 1207 Pausanias, _l.c._ 1208 Pollux, iv. 54; Athenaeus, 619 F, 620 A; Hesychius, _svv._ Βῶρμον and Μαριανδυνὸς θρῆνος. 1209 The story was told by Sositheus in his play of _Daphnis_. His verses have been preserved in the tract of an anonymous writer. See _Scriptores rerum mirabilium_, ed. Westermann, p. 220; also Athenaeus, 415 B; Schol. on Theocritus, x. 41; Photius, Suidas, and Hesychius, _s.v._ _Lityerses_; Apostolius, x. 74. Photius mentions the sickle. Lityerses is the subject of a special study by Mannhardt (_Mythologische Forschungen_, p. 1 _sqq._), whom I follow. 1210 Pollux, iv. 54. 1211 In this comparison I closely follow Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 18 _sqq._ 1212 Cp. above, p. 340. On the other hand, the last sheaf is sometimes an object of desire and emulation. See p. 336. It is so at Balquhidder also, _Folk-lore Journal_, vi. 269; and it was formerly so on the Gareloch, Dumbartonshire, where there was a competition for the honour of cutting it, several handfuls of standing corn being concealed under sheaves.—(From the information of Archie Leitch. See note on p. 345). 1213 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 19 _sq._ 1214 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 20; Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, ii. 217. 1215 Above, p. 346 _sq._ 1216 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 22. 1217 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 22. _ 1218 Ib._ p. 22 _sq._ _ 1219 Ib._ p. 23. _ 1220 Ib._ p. 23 _sq._ _ 1221 Ib._ p. 24. 1222 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 24. _ 1223 Ib._ p. 24. _ 1224 Ib._ p. 24 _sq._ _ 1225 Ib._ p. 25. 1226 Witzschel, _Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Thüringen_, p. 223. 1227 W. Mannhardt, _op. cit._ p. 25 _sq._ 1228 C. A. Elliot, _Hoshangábád Settlement Report_, p. 178, quoted in _Panjab Notes and Queries_, iii. Nos. 8, 168. 1229 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 31. _ 1230 Ib._ p. 334. 1231 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 330. _ 1232 Ib._ _ 1233 Ib._ p. 331. _ 1234 Ib._ p. 335. _ 1235 Ib._ p. 335. 1236 Above, pp. 335, 341, 350. 1237 W. Mannhardt, _Korndäm._, p. 26. 1238 Above, p. 343. 1239 W. Mannhardt, _M. F._ p. 50. _ 1240 Ib._ p. 50 _sq._ 1241 See above, pp. 286 _sq._, 333, 337, 340, 341. 1242 W. Mannhardt, _op. cit._ p. 32 _sqq._ Cp. _Revue des Traditions populaires_, iii. 598. 1243 W. Mannhardt, _Mythol. Forsch._ p. 35 _sq._ _ 1244 Ib._ p. 36.