Note 1329 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)
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Theocr. Id. VII. 155
ἇς ἐπὶ σωρῷ αὖθις ἐγὼ πάξαιμι μέγα πτύον.
Cf. πήξας εὐῆρες ἐρετμόν of the oar of Odysseus. The scholiast on Theocritus says ὅταν δὲ λικμῶνται καὶ σωρεύωσι τὸν πυρὸν κατὰ μέσον πηγνύουσι τὸ πτύον καὶ τὴν θρινάκην κατέθεντο. For the modern representative of the θρῖναξ still used in Crete I may refer to my article in the Hellenic Journal, 1903, part I.