Note 102 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

Pausanias, ii. 32. 6 Ἀφροδίτης Ἀσκραίας, where Bekker and all subsequent editors have changed Ἀσκραίας into Ἀκραίας. But Ἀσκραίας has the better manuscript authority. The title is derived from askra, “a fruitless oak” (Hesychius, s.v. ἄσκρα). See Mr. A. B. Cook, “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review, xvii, (1903) pp. 415 sq.