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ἐπὶ μίαν, ‘as they place them severally one on the other.’ The phrase corresponds to κατὰ μίαν, but implies super-position also. Cf. Hosea iv. 12 and Tac. Germ. c. 10 for a similar use of rods (‘frugiferae arbori’); also Ammianus Marcellinus xxxi. 2. 24 for it among the Alani. For a picture of rod divination cf. (a gold plaque found on banks of Amou Daria) Reinach, A. R. M. p. 187. A somewhat different method of rod divination is described by M. Polo (i. 49) as practised by ‘Christian astrologers’ for Chinghiz Khan before his battle with Prester John.

For the Ἐνάρεες cf. i. 105 n. Hippocrates (de Aer. c. 22) attributes the impotence to excessive riding. The word is probably derived from a privative and ‘Nar’ (Zend., Sansk.), ‘a man,’ Müllenhof, iii. 104.


ὦν: the ‘linden’ was sacred to Aphrodite.

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