1310 The scurrilities exchanged in both ancient and modern times between vine-dressers, vintagers, and passers-by seem to belong to a different category. See W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 53 _sq._ 1311 Above, p. 282 _sqq._ 1312 Above, p. 283 _sq._ 1313 Above, pp. 381, 384, 389. 1314 For this fact of the probable correspondence of the months, which supplies so welcome a confirmation of the conjecture in the text, I am indebted to my friend Professor W. Robertson Smith, who furnishes me with the following note: “In the Syro-Macedonian calendar Lous represents Ab, not Tammuz. Was it different in Babylon? I think it was, and one month different, at least in the early times of the Greek monarchy in Asia. For we know from a Babylonian observation in the Almagest (_Ideler_, I. 396) that in 229 B.C. Xanthicus began on February 26. It was therefore the month before the equinoctial moon, not Nisan but Adar, and consequently Lous answered to the lunar month Tammuz.” 1315 Above, p. 364. 1316 Apollodorus, ii. 5, 11; Schol. on Apollonius Rhodius, iv. 1396; Plutarch, _Parall._ 38. Herodotus (ii. 45) discredits the idea that the Egyptians ever offered human sacrifices. But his authority is not to be weighed against that of Manetho (Plutarch, _Is. et Os._ 73), who affirms that they did. 1317 E. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alterthums_, i. § 57. 1318 Diodorus, i. 88; Plutarch, _Is. et Os._ 73; cp. _id._, 30, 33. 1319 Above, pp. 307, 383, 391. 1320 Festus, _s.v._ _Catularia_. Cp. _id._, _s.v._ _rutilae canes_; Columella, x. 343; Ovid, _Fasti_, iv. 905 _sqq._; Pliny, _N. H._ xviii. § 14. 1321 Panzer, _Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie_, ii. 207, No. 362; _Bavaria, Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern_, iii. 343. 1322 Above, pp. 384, 389. 1323 Above, pp. 381, 383. 1324 Plutarch, _Is. et Os._ 18. 1325 Plutarch, _Is. et Os_. 22, 30, 31, 33, 73. 1326 Wilkinson, _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (ed. 1878), iii. 81. 1327 Pausanias, i. 22, 3, viii. 5, 8, viii. 42, 1 1328 Cornutus, _De nat. deor._ c. 28. 1329 Hone, _Every-day Book_, ii. c. 1170 _sq._ 1330 Miss C. S. Burne and Miss G. F. Jackson, _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 372 _sq._, referring to Mrs. Bray’s _Traditions of Devon_, i. 330. 1331 Hone, _op. cit._ ii. 1172. 1332 Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, ii. 20 (Bohn’s ed.); Burne and Jackson, _op. cit._ p. 371. 1333 Burne and Jackson, _l.c._ 1334 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 185. 1335 See above, p. 345. 1336 W. Mannhardt, _Myth. Forsch._ p. 185. _ 1337 Ib._ _ 1338 Revue des Traditions populaires_, ii. 500. 1339 Above, p. 343.