Note 129 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Diogenes Laertius, Vit. Philos. ii. 44, iii. 2; Plutarch, Quaest. Conviv. viii. 1. 2; J. T. Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus: Inscriptions from the great Theatre, pp. 4, 16. Apollo’s birthday (the 7th of Thargelion) was probably the festival known in the Delian calendar as the Apollonia, not the Delia as was formerly supposed. The Delia seems to have fallen in early spring, not in early summer. See C. Robert in Hermes, xxi. (1886) pp. 161–169; Aug. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (Leipsic, 1898), p. 451. On this harvest-festival at Delos see W. Mannhardt, Antike Wald- und Feldkulte, pp. 232 sqq., who, however, took the festival to be the Delia.