201 W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon d. griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 830, 838, 839. On an Etruscan mirror the scene of Cadmus’s combat with the dragon is surrounded by a wreath of laurel (Roscher, _op. cit._ ii. 862). Mr. A. B. Cook was the first to call attention to these vase-paintings in confirmation of my view that the Festival of the Laurel-bearing celebrated the destruction of the dragon by Cadmus (_Folklore_, xv. (1904) p. 411, note 224). 202 Pausanias, ix. 10. 2; K. O. Müller, _Die Dorier_,2 i. 237 _sq._ 203 For evidence of the wide diffusion of the myth and the drama, see Th. Schreiber, _Apollon Pythoktonos_, pp. 39-50. The Laurel-bearing Apollo was worshipped at Athens, as we know from an inscription carved on one of the seats in the theatre. See E. S. Roberts and E. A. Gardner, _Introduction to Greek Epigraphy_, ii. (Cambridge, 1905) p. 467, No. 247. M60 Both at Delphi and at Thebes the dragon seems to have guarded the oracular spring and the oracular tree. The crown of laurel and the crown of oak. The Festival of Crowning at Delphi originally identical with the Pythian games. 204 Apollodorus, iii. 4. 3; Schol. on Homer, _Iliad_, ii. 494; Pausanias, ix. 10. 5; _Homeric Hymn to Apollo_, 300 _sq._ The writer of the Homeric hymn merely says that Apollo slew the Delphic dragon at a spring; but Pausanias (x. 6. 6) tells us that the beast guarded the oracle. 205 Pausanias, x. 8. 9, x. 24. 7, with my notes; Ovid, _Amores_, i. 15. 35 _sq._; Lucian, _Jupiter tragoedus_, 30; Nonnus, _Dionys._ iv. 309 _sq._; Suidas, _s.v._ Κασταλία. 206 W. H. Roscher, _Lexikon d. griech. u. röm. Mythologie_, ii. 830, 838. 207 Euripides, _Iphigenia in Tauris_, 1245 _sq._, where the reading κατάχαλκος is clearly corrupt. 208 Lucian, _Bis accusatus_, I. So the priest of the Clarian Apollo at Colophon drank of a secret spring before he uttered oracles in verse (Tacitus, _Annals_, ii. 54; Pliny, _Nat. hist._ ii. 232). 209 Euripides, _Iphigenia in Tauris_, 1245 _sqq._; Apollodorus, i. 4. I; Pausanias, x. 6. 6; Aelian, _Var. hist._ iii. i; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 140; Schol. on Homer, _Iliad_, ii. 519; Schol. on Pindar, _Pyth._ Argument, p. 298, ed. Boeckh. 210 Euripides, _Hercules Furens_, 395 _sqq._; Apollodorus, ii. 5. II; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 26; Eratosthenes, _Catasterism._ 3; Schol. on Euripides, _Hippolytus_, 742; Schol. on Apollonius Rhodius, _Argon_, iv. 1396. 211 A. B. Cook, “The European Sky-god,” _Folklore_, xv. (1904) p. 413. 212 Ovid, _Metam._ i. 448 _sqq._