Note 260 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ἀνασωθέντες χαριστήρια θύουσιν,
Virg. Georg. L. i. 436.
Votaque servati solvent in littore nautæ, &c.
and again, Æneid. xii. 766.
Servati ex undis ubi figere dona solebant Laurenti divo, et votas suspendere vestes.
Several votive monuments are engraven in Père Montfaucon’s Antiq. Expliq. Tom. ii. with inscriptions, SALVOS IRE, SALVOS REDIRE, &c.: and Pitiscus (Lexic. Antiq. Rom. V. ii. p. 164.) has others, NEPTUNO REDUC. SACRUM, &c.
See the indications of the Dii Marini appearing in dreams to sea-faring people, in Artemidorus, L. ii. 38.