¹ Liddell and Scott, s.v. , suppose that these might be offered with fire, but this is an error arising from a wrong interpretation of the Scholiast's statement on Oed. Col. 100.

² Vide my Cults of the Greek States, VoL 1, p. 88).

³ Philostratus in his description of the picture of Ἀ gives us the same story; and he calls the Rhodian Sacrifices, ἄ , not because such sacrifices were usually imperfect, but because in this special case it failed to win the highest blessings, though Rhodes was abundantly blessed for that sacrifice. The sacrifices offered at Thebes by the commander of the horse at the tomb of Dirce were ἄ ἱ Plut.578 B : it is needless to say that a state-ritual like this was not intended to be inauspicious.