Note 310 — Chapter IV · THE WOMEN’S FESTIVALS. Thesmophoria, Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia, Haloa.
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μιμήματα ... ἀνδρῶν σχημάτων, i.e. φαλλοί. Cf. Septuagint, Is. iii. 17. The Arrephoroi are not as I previously (Myth. and Mon. Ancient Athens, p. xxxiv.) suggested Hersephoroi, Carriers of Young Things. Suidas, it may be noted, has the formally impossible word ἀρρηνοφορεῖν. It may have arisen from a paronomasia and seems to point in the same direction as the μιμήματα ἀνδρῶν σχημάτων of the scholiast. On the use of the φαλλός among agriculturalists as a prophylactic against the evil eye and ἐν ταῖς τελεταῖς ... σχεδόν ἁπάσαις, see Diod. IV. 6.