[56] According to _Athenaeus_, Deipnosoph., XII. p. 647., at the Feast of the Thesmophoria at Syracuse μυλλοί, representations of the female genital organs, moulded of sesame and honey, were carried about. This calls to remembrance the _Juni_ of the Indians and the Phallus images. [57] Bk. XIV. p. 657. [58] Bk. II. ch. 27. [59] “Ideen zur Kunst-Mythologie,” (Ideas towards a Study of the Mythology of Art). Dresden 1826. large 8vo. p. 207. [60] _Coveel_, “De Sacerdotio Veterum Virginum.” (On the office of Priestess as filled by Virgins in Antiquity). Abo 1704. 8vo.—_Hirt, A._, “Die Hierodulen, mit Beilagen von Böckh und Buttmann,” (The Hieroduli, with Supplements by Böckh and Buttmann). I Pt. Berlin 1818. large 8vo.—_Kreuser, J._, “Der Hellenen Priesterstaat, mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die Hierodulen,” (Priestly Institutions of the Hellenes, with particular reference to the Hieroduli). Mayence 1822. 8vo.—_Adrian_, “Die Priesterinnen der Griechen,” (The Priestesses of the Greeks). Frankfort-on-the-Main 1822. 8vo.—_Schinke_, in Ersch and Gruber’s Allgem. Encyclopaedie, II. Sect. 8 Pt. p. 50. [61] _Strabo_, Bk. XII. p. 557. [62] _Strabo_, Bk. XII. p. 559.—_Heyne, Ch. G._ “Comment. de Sacerdotio Comanensi de Religionum cis et trans Taurum consensione,” (Commentaries on the Priesthood of Comana, and generally on the Similarity of Religions on the nearer and farther side of the Taurus range), Comment. Soc. Reg. Götting. Vol. XVI. pp. 101-149. [63] _Strabo_, bk. VIII p. 378., Τό τε τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἱερὸν οὕτω πλούσιον ὑπῆρξεν, ὥστε πλείους ἢ χιλίας ἱεροδούλους ἐκέκτητο ἑταίρας, ἃς ἀνετίθεσαν τῇ θεῷ καὶ ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκες· Καὶ διὰ ταύτας οὖν ἐπολυοχλεῖτο ἡ πόγις καὶ ἐπλουτίζετο. οἱ γὰρ ναύκληροι ῥᾳδίως ἐξανηλίκοντο, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἡ παροιμία φησίν, Οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐς Κόρινθον ἔσθ’ ὁ πλοῦς. (And the temple of Aphrodité was so rich that it possessed more than a thousand Hetaerae attached to its service as Hieroduli, whom both men and women dedicated to the goddess. And so for this reason the city was frequented by multitudes and grew wealthy; for shipmasters used readily to visit the port, and on this account says the proverb: It does not fall to _every_ man to sail to Corinth.) Comp. the Commentators on Horace, Epist. I. 17. 36. _Alexander ab Alexandro_, Genial. dier. lib., VI. ch. 26., Corinthi supra mille prostitutae in templo Veneris assiduae degere et inflammata libidine quaestui meretricio operam dare et velut sacrorum ministrae Deae famulari solebant. (At Corinth more, than a thousand prostitutes were wont to live always in the temple of Venus and with lust ever a flame to give their lives to the gains of harlotry and to serve the goddess as handmaidens of her rites).