{141a} Otherwise written and interpreted, "as even now the skins are
there," that is, are exhibited as relics.

{141b} "Der Zweite Halbvers is mir absolut unverstandlich!"--_Gemoll_.

{144} This is not likely to be the sense, but sense the text gives none.
Allen, _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xvii. II.

{153} "As if one walked with trees instead of feet."--_Allen_.

{156} The passage which follows (409-414) is too corrupt to admit of any
but conjectural rendering. Probably Apollo twisted bands, which fell off
Hermes, turned to growing willows, and made a bower over the kine. See
Mr. Allen, _op. cit_.

{162a} This passage is a playing field of conjecture; some taking [Greek
text] = Mediator, or Go-between: some as = pactum, "covenant."

{162b} There seems to be a reference to the _caduceus_ of Hermes, which
some have compared to the forked Divining Rod. The whole is corrupt and
obscure. To myself it seems that, when he gave the lyre (463-495),
Hermes was hinting at his wish to receive in exchange the gift of
prophecy. If so, these passages are all disjointed, and 521, with what
follows, should come after 495, where Hermes makes the gift of the lyre.

{164} It appears from Philochorus that the prophetic lots were called
_thriae_. They are then personified, as the prophetic Sisters, the
Thriae. The white flour on their locks may be the grey hair of old age:
we know, however, a practice of divining with grain among an early