« CYNEGETICA, IV. 261-272 



the benches of his boat flowered * the lush bindweed ^ 

 and blooming vine " and ivy wTeathed the stem. 

 Now would the fishermen, cowering in god-sent 

 terror,"* have dived into the sea, but ere that the boat 

 came to land. And to Euboea the women came, 

 carr}'ing the god, and to the abode of x\ristaeus,« who 

 dwelt in a cave on the top of a mountain at Caryae ' 

 and who instructed the Ufe of country-dwelhng men 

 in countless things ; he was the first to estabhsh a 

 flock of sheep » ; he first pressed the fruit of the oily 

 wild ohve,^ first curdled milk with rennet,and brought 

 the gentle bees * from the oak ^ and shut them up in 



the Etesian winds to blow for forty days after the rising 

 of Sirius. Hence Aristaeus was worshipped in Ceos as 

 Zeus Aristaeus (Callim. Ait. iu. 1. 33 ff. [Loeb] ; Ap. Rh. 

 ii. 516 ff. ; Nonn. v. 269 f . ; xiii. 279 ff.). In the present 

 passage he seems to be conceived as dwelling in Euboea. 



' Kepdea-ffiv iV &vrpov (Schneid. and Lehrs) seems to have 

 no probability. We know no example of Kepara apphed to 

 a cave (Claud. Paneg. Prob. et 01. 209 has " curvis Tiberinus 

 in antris ") and 8pei's Kepd€(T<XLi' vir' Avrpifi (suggested by 

 Schneid. in note) would be preferable. We venture to read 

 Kapinufftv (practically the reading of the mss.) and suppose 

 that Caryae = Carystus, foimding upon Callira. Aif. iii. 1. 

 56 ff., where we are told that Xenomedes recoimted the 

 legendary history of Ceos, Apxp^vos ws vvpi<t)rj<nv ivaiero 

 KbjpvKiTjaL Tttj d-rb TlapvijaaoO X« iSiu^e fi-eyas, | TSpovffffav T(fi 

 /cat fuv ((prifuffcw, us re Kipw . . . ! . o . . . 0v(T . to . . . 

 tfK€€v iv Koprais, coupled with Heraclid. Ilepi voXiTeiQv ix. 

 (Miiller, F.H.G. ii. p. 214) e/caXeiTO p.ev 'TSpov<ra r) vijffov 

 \4yofTai &e oiK^ai J^iv/jupai Tporepov ai'Tijv. <l>o^rfaa.vTos bk aurds 

 \iovTot eii KdpvtTTov Sia^rjvai. Also acc. to one version 

 (schol. Ap. Rh. ii. 498) Carvstus was the father of Aristaeus. 



» Nonn. V. 261 ff. ' " lb. 258 ff. * lb. 242 ff. 



^ Before the invention of the artificial hive, the only 

 honey known was •" wild honey " (fi4\i to Kokovnevov dypiov 

 Died. xix. 94; fiiXt &ypiov N.T. Matt. iii. 4) "deposited in 

 the hollow of old trees and in the caNities of rocks" 

 (Gibbon, c. x.). Claud. In Ruf. u. 460 ff. 



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