Note 136 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Herodotus, iv. 33; Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 278 sqq. Herodotus does not tell us in what the sacred offerings consisted; Pausanias says (i. 31. 2) that no one knew what they were. But from the evidence of Callimachus, compared with that of Pliny (Nat. Hist. iv. 91) and Mela (iii. 37), it appears that they were believed to be the first-fruits of the corn.