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εὔστομα κείσθω: probably a fragment of an old hymn. The Θεσμοφόρια was really a feast of the sowing time; it was celebrated in Attica from the 10th to the 13th of Pyanepsion (end of Oct.). H. also speaks of it at Ephesus (vi. 16. 2); and it was at the Θεσμοφόριον (vi. 134. 2) of Paros that Miltiades was seized with his mysterious panic. The festival was that of married women only; for it cf. B. B. Rogers, Thesmophoriazusae, Introd., or Farnell, G. C. iii. 85 seq.; for similar festivals cf. v. 61. 2. H. derives it from Egypt because he identifies Isis with Demeter; to Isis, as to Demeter Θεσμοφόρος, was attributed the introduction of agriculture and settled law (Diod. i. 14); but it is not likely the worships were connected; similar rites arise independently in different races.

For Danaus cf. 91. 5 n., for H.'s views on Pelasgians App. XV, for the Arcadians οὐκ ἐξα<*>στάντες, viii. 73. 1.

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