167 E. Rohde, “Unedirte Luciansscholien, die attischen Thesmophorien und Haloen betreffend,” in _Rheinisches Museum_, N. F. xxv. (1870) 548 _sqq_. Two passages of classical writers (Clemens Alex., _Protrept._ ii. § 17 and Pausanias, ix. 8, 1) refer to the rites described by the Scholiast on Lucian, and had been rightly interpreted by Lobeck (_Aglaophamus_, p. 827 _sqq._) 168 The scholiast speaks of them as _megara_ and _adyta_. _Megara_ (from a Phoenician word meaning “cavern,” “subterranean chasm,” Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, i. 220) were properly subterranean vaults or chasms sacred to the gods. See Hesychius, quoted by Movers, _l.c._ (the passage does not appear in M. Schmidt’s minor edition of Hesychius); Porphyry, _De antro nymph._ 6. 169 We infer this from Pausanias, ix. 8, 1, though the passage is incomplete and apparently corrupt. For ἐν Δωδώνῃ Lobeck proposes to read ἀναδῦναι or ἀναδοθῆναι. At the spring and autumn festivals of Isis at Tithorea geese and goats were thrown into the _adyton_ and left there till the following festival, when the remains were removed and buried at a certain spot a little way from the temple. Pausanias, x. 32, 14 (9). This analogy supports the view that the pigs thrown into the caverns at the Thesmophoria were left there till the next festival. 170 Ovid, _Fasti_, iv. 461-466, upon which Gierig remarks, “_Sues melius poeta omisisset in hac narratione_.” Such is the wisdom of the commentator. 171 Pausanias, i. 14, 3. 172 Schol. on Aristophanes, _Frogs_, 338. 173 Above, p. 15 _sq._ 174 Above, p. 20 _sq._ 175 Above, p. 9. 176 Above, p. 29. 177 Above, p. 29 _sq._ 178 In Clemens Alex., _Protrept._ ii. 17, for μεγαρίζοντες χοίρους ἐκβάλλουσι Lobeck (Aglaophamus, p. 831) would read μεγάροις ζῶντας χοίρους ἐμβάλλουσι. For his emendation of Pausanias, see above, p. 45. 179 It is worth noting that in Crete, which was an ancient seat of Demeter worship (see above, vol. i. p. 331), the pig was esteemed very sacred and was not eaten, Athenaeus, 375 F·376 A. This would not exclude the possibility of its being eaten sacramentally, as at the Thesmophoria. 180 Pausanias, viii. 42. 181 Above, p. 24 _sqq._ 182 Pausanias, viii. 25 and 42. On the Phigalian Demeter, see W. Mannhardt, _M. F._ p. 244 _sqq._ 183 Above, vol. i. p. 296 _sq._ 184 Above, vol. i. p. 296. 185 Demosthenes, _De corona_, p. 313. 186 Above, vol. i. p. 281. 187 Cureton, _Spicilegium Syriacum_, p. 44. 188 Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 54.