^{page 340 note 1} See the key-plan in B.S.A. xi. Pl. X. The spot is almost on the line between squares M 6 and N 6.

^{page 340 note 2} First copied by Prof. Halbherr, , Mus. Ital. iii. 612Google Scholar. Compare MrTod', remarks in B.S.A. ix. 337.Google Scholar

^{page 340 note 3} The find was reported to the Candia Museum, and one of the Ephors, Mr. Xanthoudides, published the inscription with an excellent commentary in ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1908. 197 ff. Unfortunately it did not occur to him to communicate with the British School at Athens, to which the Cretan Government had granted the right of excavation over this region, nor even to visit the spot. In consequence the opportunity for further investigation was lost. I have since questioned the finder, one of our own workmen. There was a large quantity of stone of the kinds common at Roussolakkos, especially the much-prized square πελέκια-—probably the hoard of some one who intended to build a house; building was postponed and the stones buried to protect them from neighbouring collectors.

^{page 341 note 1} Professor Halbherr kindly examined the stone and is of this opinion.

^{page 347 note 1} It is not easy to say why the first stanza was engraved while the place for the refrain below it was left blank; possibly the stanzas were engraved first under supervision, sufficient space being left for the refrain.

^{page 348 note 1} Hogarth, , B.S.A. vi. 115.Google Scholar

^{page 349 note 1} Bas, Le, Rev. de Phil. i. 264 ff.Google Scholar; Blass, Die Kretischen Inschriften (in Collitz-Bechtel's Sammlung der Dielekt-Inschr.) 5041.

^{page 349 note 2} Treaty made by Gortys and Hierapytna with Priansos, Blass, 5024; treaty between Hierapytna and a colony, discussed below, Blass, 5039.

^{page 349 note 3} Temple of Z. Monnitios at Malla, Blass, 5184. 15; cf. 5100. 19.

^{page 349 note 4} C.I.A. ii. 549; Blass, 5147, side b line 5, τῆνα Βιδάταν καὶ Τῆνα. . . A temple of Z. Βιδάτας seems to be mentioned in ibid. 5024, in the description of the frontier of Priansos; it may have lain in the region where Priansos marched with Lyttos. For ϝίδα =᾿´Ιδη see Xanthoudides' remarks in ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1908, p. 236.

^{page 349 note 5} The temple of Z. Ταλλαῖος᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ at Olous is mentioned in the inscription B.C.H. iii. 293 = Blass, 5149. 14.

^{page 349 note 6} Ibid. 5075. 73, Ζῆνα τὸν Κρηταγενέα We have the same title in the fragmentary oath of a treaty between Gortys and Sybrita, ibid. 5021. 19.

^{page 349 note 7} Ibid. 4952. 19.

^{page 349 note 8} B.C.H. xiii. (1889), 61.

^{page 350 note 1} Brit. Mus. Catalogue, Crete, xv. 10 and 12. The coins show him seated among branches. In one version of his perilous infancy Amalthea hides his cradle in a tree and the Kouretes dance about it (Hyginus, 139).

^{page 350 note 2} Halbherr, , Mus. Ital. iii. 563Google Scholar; Dittenberger, ii. No. 462; Blass, 5058. Dittenberger is wrong in saying that it was found at Palaikastro; it was found at Itanos (Eremopoli).

^{page 350 note 3} C.I.G. 2555; Blass, 5039. The newcomers in this list are Z. Diktaios and Athena Salmonia, both worshipped in the north-eastern corner of Crete: it is plain that the colony lay in that direction.

^{page 350 note 4} Mariani, , Mon. Ant. vi. 299Google Scholar; Dittenberger, ii. No. 427; Blass, 5120; Strabo, 475 and 478.

^{page 352 note 1} Blass, 5041. 14. The oath ends καὶ Κώρητας καὶ Νύμφας καὶ θεὸς πάντας καὶ πάσας

^{page 352 note 2} Ibid. 5075. 76.

^{page 352 note 3} The Cretan mythologist, whom Diodoros paraphrases, follows the view (cf. Hesiod, Works and Days, 120) that these δαίμονες were the first inhabitants, the men of the golden age. So Strabo, x. 473, ‘Some say that the name Idaean Daktyls was given to the first inhabitants of the lower slopes of Ida.’ Pashley, , Travels in Crete, ii. 217Google Scholar, 232 quotes a modern story of male and female spirits seen by hunters on the mountains of Sphakia.

^{page 352 note 4} Ibid. 5016. 6.

^{page 353 note 1} For this exceptional inclusion of the Κύρβαντες ( = Korybantes) see also the treaty between Priansos, Gortyna, and Hierapytna (Blass, 5024), where the formula is much mutilated, but the restoration of Κύ (ρβαντας) in l. 63 is highly probable. There was a reason in local legend, which said thai the city was originally called Κύρβα (Steph. Byz. s.v. ῾Ιεράπυτνα and was founded by a Κύρβας who had come with the Κούρητες from Rhodes (Strabo, 472); Κύρβη appears as a Rhodian place-name in Diod. Sic. v. 57. The inscription recently found at Palaikastro (῾Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1908, 199) mentions a tribe Καμιρίς clearly belonging to Hierapytna and illustrating another of its alleged earlier names, Κάμιρος (Steph. Byz. l. c.). This traditional kinship no doubt facilitated the alliance between Rhodes and Hierapytna of which we have epigraphic record (Collitz-Bechtel, 3749; cf. Strabo, l. c.).

^{page 354 note 1} I follow the emended text of Diels, , Vorsokratiker, i. 216.Google Scholar He ascribes the lines doubtfully to Empedocles, as Wyttenbach did before him.

^{page 355 note 1} Prof. Murray calls my attention to the chorus in Eurip. Electra, 726 ff., describing how Zeus changed the movements of sun and stars as a testimony against Thyestes. In some accounts this is a temporary portent, but here and in Plato, Politicus, 269, it is regarded as a permanent reversal; till then the sun had risen in the west and set in the east.

^{page 355 note 2} The name of Εὐνομία not mentioned in the Hymn, was adopted in several Cretan cities as a collective title for the college of magistrates (Xanthoudides, ᾿Εφ. ᾿Αρχ 1908. 208).

^{page 355 note 3} The mention of peace in the animal world might possibly refer to the proverbial freedom of Crete from all noxious creatures—an immunity which resulted, according to one account, from the birth of Zeus in the island; others give the credit to Herakles or even to St. Paul. The passages are collected by Pashley, , Travels in Crete, ii. 261.Google Scholar