Note 277 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ὅσοι ἄλλοι ὄρειοι θεοί. Almost every mountain had its tutelar deity; but Arrian probably here means the rural deities hitherto unnamed, as Sylvanus, Silenus, Priapus, Aristæus, 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 system of more modern 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:
Senecæ Hippolyt. Prol. vs. 73.
Tua si gratus numina cultor Tulit in saltus; retia vinctas Tenuere feras; nulli laqueum Rupêre pedes; fertur plaustro Præda gementi: tum rostra canes Sanguine multo rubicunda gerunt; Repetitque casas rustica longo Turba triumpho.