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[115]Δελτίον τῆς Ἱστ. καὶ Ἐθν. Ἑταιρίας, II. p. 122.

[116] Schmidt, op. cit. p. 97.

[117]Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable à Sant-Erini, isle de l’Archipel, depuis l’etablissement des Pères de la Compagnie de Jesus en icelle (Paris, 1657), p. 192 ff.

[118] See below, pp. 255 ff.

[119] See below, pp. 284-7.

[120] Cf. Hesych. σμερδαλέος, σμερδνός = φοβερός, καταπληκτικός, πολεμικός; and σμέρδος = λῆμα, ῥώμη, δύναμις, ὅρμημα.

[121] Bybilakis, Neugriechisches Leben, p. 16, and in the periodical Φιλίστωρ, IV. p. 517.

[122]op. cit. p. 92.

[123] Steph. Thesaur. s.v.

[124]Ἐφημ. τῶν Φιλομαθῶν, anno 1861, p. 1851, quoted by Schmidt, loc. cit.

[125] Schmidt, op. cit. p. 92.

[126]Ibid.

[127] Zenob. Cent. III. 3. Cf. Hesych. and Suidas, s.v. Γελλώ.

[128] Cf. Leo Allatius, de quor. Graec. opin. cap. III. ad fin., quoting Mich. Psellus, πᾶσαν τὴν ἐν τοῖς βρέφεσιν ἀπορροφᾶν ὥσπερ ὑγρότητα.

[129] Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, Bk II. cap. 9, p. 90.

[130]Ibid. p. 91.

[131] Schmidt, Das Volksleben der Neugr. p. 33.

[132] Schmidt, Märchen, etc. p. 131.

[133] Soutzos, Hist. de la Révolution Grecque, p. 158. Cf. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 27.

[134] Schmidt, Märchen, etc. no. XI.

[135] Schmidt, Das Volksleben der Neugriechen, p. 135.

[136]Πανδώρα (periodical) XVI. p. 538, ἅγιε Νικόλα ναύτη.

[137] B. Schmidt, Märchen, etc. no. XX.

[138] Plutarch, de defect. orac. 17.

[139]Idyll.I. 15.

[140]Ps. 91. 6.

[141]De quorumdam Graecorum opinationibus, cap. VIII.

[142] Du Cange, Lex. med. et infim. Latin, s.v.

[143] Clarke, Catalogue of Sculptures in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

[144] The population of Eleusis, as of many villages in Attica, is mainly Albanian; but they have inherited many of the old Greek superstitions and customs.

[145] Lenormant, Monographie de la voie sacrée éleusinienne, p. 399 ff.

[146] “The diminutive in Albanian of Nicolas is Kolio: in the choice of this name is there not a reminiscence of that of Celeus?”—so Lenormant in a note. The suggestion does not appear to me very probable.

[147] Opposite Eleusis in Salamis.

[148] Euseb. Chron. p. 27. Plut. Vita Thes. XXXI. ad fin.

[149] Paus. VIII. 15.

[150] Conon, Narrat. 15.

[151]Tour through Greece, II. p. 440.

[152]Travels in the Morea, III. p. 148.

[153] Paus. VIII. 42. 1–4, and 25. 5.

[154] Schol. in Ar. Ran. 441. Aelian, Hist. Anim. X. 16.

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