But, to illustrate this controversy further, I cannot be persuaded the Doctor ever looked into Junius, for, if he had, I am confident, according to his wonted accurateness, he would have cited Pollux’s _Onomasticon_ into the bargain, for Junius refers to him, and I shall set down his words, that so the reader may see what _Ascoliasmus_ was, and all the Doctor’s authors say _Ludus Empusæ_ and _Ascoliasmus_ were one and the same thing. Julius Pollux (lib. ix. cap. 7): Ὁ δε Ἀσκολὶασμὸς, (old editions read it, Ἀ’σκολιασμὸς et ασκολιάζω) τοῦ ἑτέρου ποδὸς αἰωρουμένου, κατὰ μόνου τοῦ ἑτέρου πηδᾶν ἔπόιει; ὅπερ Ἀσκωλιάζὲιν ὠνόμαζον· ἤτοι εἰς μἢκος ἐνήλλαντο, ἢ ὁ μὲν ἐδίωκεν οὕτως, οἱ δὲ ὑπέφευγον ἐπ’ ἀμφοῖν θὲοντες, ἕως τινὸς τῳ φερομένῳ ποδὶ ὁ διὼκων δυνηθῇ τυχεῖν· ἤ καὶ στάντες ἐπήδων, ἀριθμοῦντες τὰ πηδήματα· προσέκειτο γὰρ τῷ πλήθει τὸ νικᾶν. Ἀσκωλιάζειν δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ τὸ ἐπιπηδᾶν ἀσκῷ κενῷ καὶ ὑποπλέω πνευματος, ἠλείμμένω, ἵναπερ ὀλισθάνοιεν περὶ τὴν ἀλοιφὴν. “So that _Ascoliasmus_, and consequently, _Ludus Empusæ_, was a certain sport which consisted in hopping, whether it were by striving who could hop furthest, or whether only one did pursue the rest hopping, and they fled before him on both legs, which game he was to continue till he had caught one of his fellows, or whether it did consist in the boys’ striving who could hop longest. Or, lastly, whether it did consist in hopping upon a certain bladder, which, being blown up and well oiled over, was placed upon the ground for them to hop upon, that so the unctuous bladder might slip from under them and give them a fall.” And this is all that Pollux holds forth. Now, of all these ways, there is none that hath any resemblance with our _Fox to thy hole_; but the second: and yet, in its description, there is no mention of beating him with gloves, as they do now-a-days, and wherein the play consists as well as in hopping. It might, notwithstanding, be called _Ludus Empusæ_, but not in any sort our _Fox to thy hole_; so that the Doctor and his authors are out, imposing that upon Junius and Pollux which they never said. And thus much may suffice as to this point. I shall only add out of Meursius’s _Ludi Græci_, that _Ascolia_ were not _Ludus Empusæ_ but _Bacchisacra_, and he quotes Aristophanes’s Scholiast in Plutus, Ἀσκώλια ἑορτὴ Διονύσου ἀσκὸν γαρ οἵνου πληροῦντες, ἑνὶ ποδὶ τοῦτον ἐπεπήδον, καὶ ὁ πηδήσας ἆθλον εἶχε τὸν οἵνου. As also Hesychius, Ἀσκωλιάζειν, κυρίως τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦς ἀσκοὺς ἅλλεσθαι.