170 ARRIAN 



J^^^y may be : otherwise their pursuits must turn out abortive, their 



XXXIV. 



Uy\l XXV. 3. 



Act. V. sc. I. 



Senecae 



Hippolyt. 



Prol. vs. 73. 



A Greek medal is extant of Arrian's native city, of the reign of Antoninus Pius, 

 bearing tlie impcess of the god Terminus. See Numruophylacium Reginae Christina;, 

 Tab. i.vii. 



The old herdsman of Theocritus, with the title flvoSios, affords the reason of its 

 use : 



€« roi ^eive Trp6(ppwv fjivB-fiffofiai o<rct' ipaivus, 

 'Kp/xew a^SfjLevos Setv^v oiriv elvoSioio. 

 rhv yap (paffl ix4yi(rTov iirovpaviwu Kf^oAaJtrOai, 

 ei" Kev odov ^axp^^ov avrjvriTai tis oSi'ttjj'. 



See Eustathius ad Homeri Odyss. xvi. and Ouzelius ad M. INIinuc. Felic. Octavium, 

 p. 109. 



In his character of guide or conductor, ('liyeix6ptos,) amongst many others, the 

 wily god volunteers his services to Cario, in the Plutus of Aristophanes : 



EP. aW' T]yf fjL6vwv. KA. aW' 6 dfhs ■^Srj fi\4net. 



Though the messenger of tlie gods, and supremely Aihs &yy f\os, he seems to have 

 been a willing itinerant on earth {65onr6pos) in the cause of humanity. See Iliad xxiv. 



Guard of our life, and partner of our way ! 



21. "OffOL &KXoi opeioi 6eoi. Almost every mountain had its tutelar deity ; but 

 Arrian probably here means the rural deities hitherto unnamed, as Sylvanus, Silenus, 

 Priapus, Aristaeus, the Fauns, Satyrs, Pales, Flora, Feronia, and a host of others. 

 On a due observance of the rites of these gods and goddesses, and demi-deities of 

 " hill and dale, forest and mead," (to whom might be traced, perhaps, the fairy sys- 

 tem of more modem days,) and more particularly on an observance of those of Diana 

 Agrotera, was an abundant supply of game, and avoidance of the ordinary casualties 

 of the chase, entirely dependent : 



Tua si gratus numina cultor 

 Tulit in saltus ; retia vincta* 

 Tenuere feras ; nulli laqueum 

 Rupere pedes; fertur plaustra 

 Praeda gementi: turn rostra canes 

 Sanguine multo rubicundii gerunt ; 

 Repetitque casas rustica longo 

 Turba triumpho. 



